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[โ€“] blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem here is that every junior programmer thinks they write clean code when they really really don't. Often I find the act of writing comments makes you go back to the code and clean things up, so it's still worth encouraging comments.

Just do TDD instead