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by jotaen 862 days ago
The code may tell you what it does, but that doesn’t necessarily tell you why it’s there.

Especially for non-obvious pieces of code I have to deal with, I certainly prefer to understand the original reasoning and context within 5 minutes by looking at the original commit / PR, than having to spend multiple hours rediscovering that one quirky edge-case scenario that someone else already dealt with 3 years ago.