This completely does not match my experience. When I first started programming, and even after a year or two in the industry, I used to write zero comments. O

This completely does not match my experience. When I first started programming, and even after a year or two in the industry, I used to write zero comments. Or maybe a line or two of comments every few thousands lines of code. Then, I started adding comments in places I thought required explanation and above function declarations. After I joined Google I was taught by smart people to add a comment every ten lines of code or so explaining what the next ten lines of code do. I still don't write much comments when doing hobby programming at home (after all, the whole point of hobby is to indulge yourself), but there is no slightest doubt in my mind that abundance of comments is a good thing. I've never really seen code I considered overcommented. I see code which is severely undercommented all the time.