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		bee_rider 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: D4D4 Maybe there should be a convention around comments which describe functionality, those which describe history, and I’m sure we can find other types of comments. Then we can have our editors hide certain types of comments based on what we want to see.

lionkor 6 months ago [–]

The issue is really that the comments' semantics aren't validated. That might be an AI startup idea; going through a codebase and linting comments.

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