The comment is more a symptom than a cause of problems. If useless comments are added, they’re often an excuse for lazy code, in that it allows a way to say I c

The comment is more a symptom than a cause of problems. If useless comments are added, they’re often an excuse for lazy code, in that it allows a way to say I can’t be bothered to write this better, I’ll just add a comment instead. Regarding time saving, I seriously doubt that code quality is proportional to time spent typing. Instead of typing two things I would prefer the author spent more time thinking and typing just one thing.