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Bun’s new GitHub rule treats long comments not as a style issue but as a signal of avoidable complexity. If a workaround needs a paragraph to justify, the code itself is the problem. It’s a debt-accountability mechanism that forces teams to fix code instead of documenting its flaws. The rule is a comment that polices bots—a meta-norm that turns good judgment into a feature.
Engineers are furious that AI assistants like Claude leave overly verbose code comments. But what if those comments aren’t meant for us? Claude’s heavy commenting isn’t a stylistic flaw; it’s an emergent behavior designed to leave breadcrumbs for future AI agents in multi-agent workflows. We are witnessing the birth of machine-first readability.
The clean code dogma says comments are a crutch. But code can only show ‘how’, never ‘why’. Without comments, your codebase becomes a beautiful graveyard of lost context. This article argues that the real technical debt isn’t messy code — it’s missing context. A comment is a gift to your future self, not a confession of failure.