You're mixing up two orthogonal things. Your dichotomy is false, a straw man. Code overspecifies. As long as there are programmers, the clearest code in the wo

You're mixing up two orthogonal things. Your dichotomy is false, a straw man. Code overspecifies. As long as there are programmers, the clearest code in the world should still have comments indicating intent. And comments won't save unclear code.