I have changed my commenting style now, since the rise of LLMs.

I used to comment in a similar way to claude/chatgpt, as in both the what and why. (although the why in LLMs is often lost. ) I used to comment as if it was for someone who didn't know the libraries very well. (ie me in two years time. Documentation at the previous place was utterly shite, so it was effectively a journal of discovery)

However, my commenting style is both what and why. My variable names can be longer than my FANG peers, mainly because I know that English not being a first language means that half arsed abbreviations are difficult to parse.

But effort is placed on not using fancy features, python mostly, so avoiding lambdas and other "syntactic sugar", unless they absolutely make sense. If I do use them, i have a comment saying _why_ I'm doing it.

Some of my colleagues were dead against any kind of commenting. "my code should be readable enough without it". They had the luxury of working on one bit for a few months, then throwing it away.