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by mjr00 848 days ago
> Really? You don't think it's a matter of updating the prompt and expanding the context to include more of the code?

AI isn't magic. If the "why" isn't in the code, there's no way for it to magically synthesize it.

Comments explaining "there's a check for this edge case because we saw a problem in production when client X did something, see JIRA-1234 for more details" are what you should be aspiring to. If a human doesn't write that down, the AI can't invent it.