Grok Bot engineering lead calls for deleting the vast majority of code comments: AI will turn temporary patches into permanent legacy rules.

Beating AI Express News reports: Lauren Tan, engineering lead of Grok Bot, is calling for the removal of the vast majority of comments in codebases. She argues that coding agents tend to mimic existing code; a comment explaining a temporary fix could be repeatedly copied by subsequent agents as the correct approach, eventually leading to outdated patches and workarounds spreading across the entire project. Tan previously revealed in an interview that Dune, the development framework used by Grok

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