I Used to Delete Every Comment AI Wrote. Here’s Why I Stopped: AI-First Development

I’m using AI more and more in development, and the feelings I get about it mirror the mobile-first shift from 15 years ago

I’ve been coding for over 20 years, and I live by one sacred rule:

Comments lie, Code is ground truth.

You know the drill. Someone writes a function, adds a helpful comment explaining what it does.

Six months later, three developers have touched that code. The function now does something completely different, but the comment? Still sitting there, confidently lying about what actually happens.

So when AI started writing comments in my code, I did what any reasonable developer would do: I deleted them. Every. Single. One.

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The ritual was automatic: AI generates code → AI adds comments → I remove comments → commit clean code. This has been my workflow for the last few months.

But then I started thinking (and recording some YouTube shorts)…

Are Comments Helping AI?

Example of comments that seems useless