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Yes that’s exactly what I think. I also don’t think the team was aware that opus 5 talks like an overcooked gibbon either. And what’s more I’m certain that it will do neither very soon.

Comment · 2 months ago

I'm certainly reading the code and comments, and I encourage all of my team members to do so. You are assuming that this excessive and nonsensnical comment choice is deliberate. It cannot be, or should not be because it regularly confused our team, and it regularly confuses claude also.

Also many many people keep saying the same thing and you keep repeating adnausium the same tired comments. I get it, you think the comments are great and are valuable.

Read the entire thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49393378

The concensus in this thread is that for multiple reasons the excessive comments are in fact actively harmful. The listed reasons are:

1. Document the conversation, not the code — narrate the back-and-forth that produced the change rather than what the code does

2. Reference intermediate states that never shipped ("previously X, now Y")

3. Cite plan documents and session artifacts (`per section 2.1 of addition-implementation-plan.md`) meaningless to a future reader

4. Belong in commit messages or PR comments, not source files

5. Go stale immediately — describe a state the code is no longer in

6. Launder incorrect code as intentional, making bugs harder to spot

7. Build a false Chesterton's fence around mistakes

8. Use defensive prose ("this is not cosmetic", "prevents the critical bug that shipped once") that asserts importance instead of conveying information

9. Describe what the code doesn't do — relevant in the moment, not in the codebase

10. Confuse later agent sessions, sending them to read irrelevant files

11. Consume context tokens on every read

12. Force reviewers to manually delete the litter

13. Resist correction — telling Claude to be concise doesn't durably stick

Please consider that your opinion may need to adjusted.

Comment · 2 months ago

No it doesn’t. The comments are hugely verbose trash that immediately becomes outdated and brittle and confusing for humans and Claude alike.

Comment · 2 months ago

They’re monsters? Did they shutter an agency which caused the death on how many millions again?

Comment · 2 months ago

I didn’t see china calling to annex Canada. The bad relations between china and Canada were also principally caused by the US insisting that we detain Meng Wanzhou. We can see what thanks we got for that.

Comment · 2 months ago

Yes lots and lots of growth.