> Almost a third of our source code was comments. I deleted all of them and asked an AI agent to build the same features on both versions of the codebase, three times each. The code it wrote was just as good with or without comments.
Seems like this might be another example of The Bitter Lesson [1]:
"The bitter lesson is the observation in artificial intelligence that, in the long run, general approaches that scale with available computational power tend to outperform ones based on domain-specific understanding because they are better at taking advantage of the falling cost of computation over time."
AIs don't need comments that are designed to work around human cognitive limitations. They're quite happy to just crunch the code and extract the meaning.