Experience doesn’t leave me with any confidence that the long term memory will be useful for long. Our agentic code bases are a few months old, wait a few years for those comments to get out of date and then see how much it helps.

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tyre 4 hours ago | parent [-]

The great thing about agentic coding is you can define one whose entire role is to read a diff, look in contextual files for comments, and verify whether they’re still accurate.

You don’t have to rely on humans doing it. The agent’s entire existence is built around doing this one mundane task that is annoying but super useful.

	▲	rustystump 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Idk if u are serious. Yes, lets blow another 5-10k a project/month on tokens to keep the comments up to date. The fact ai still cannot consistently refactor without leaving dead code around even after a self review does not give me confidence in comments… Comments in code are often a code smell. This is an industry standard for a reason and isnt because of staleness. If u are writing a comment, it means the code is bad or there is irreducible complexity. It is about good design. Comments everywhere are almost always a flag. Note, language conventions are not the same.