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TODO: Developers need to write BETTER comments

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Make a fast website with Zyro - https://zyro.com/special/filip I have organised a trip through France with my 3 developer friends and decided to film it. Developer jokes, raw programming humor, debates, dilemmas and discussions while enjoying some French views. In this video we discuss Elon Musk buying Twitter, how to write good comments in your code and moving back to Silicon Valley. INQUIRIES AND COLLABORATIONS ► grebowskifilip@gmail.com Developer Resume Template ➡ https://shop.developerfilip.com ✏️📋 Join my Newsletter ➡ https://shop.developerfilip.com/sign-up 🔥 Join my Discord Server ► https://discord.gg/VBj4yZH Follow me on Twitter ► https://www.twitter.com/developerfilip Follow me on Instagram ► https://www.instagram.com/developerfilip Check me out on GitHub ► https://github.com/FilipGrebowski MUSIC BY ► @epidemicsound #developers #codecomments #webdeveloper

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I took you along on a trip through France with three of my developer friends, and I basically turned the whole drive into a rolling tech debate. It’s part travel vlog, part raw programming humor, part “why are we like this?” energy—castles we pretend to understand, wine caves we definitely understand, and a lot of developer banter in between. The big topics: Elon Musk buying Twitter (and the general vibe of “there’s probably a reason we don’t know about”), moving back to Silicon Valley, and—my favorite—how developers should write better comments. We argue two main approaches: write comments first to clarify intent (then delete or trim them), versus writing code that’s so self-explanatory you barely need comments at all. The takeaway is pretty simple: don’t narrate your if/else. Use comments for intent, tricky implementation details, and anything that would confuse Future You. Also, naming and types can be documentation (Go is a great example of that), so the best comment is often just better code.

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