Oh yeah, a TODO is way better than nothing, no disagreement there. If you have a code review step, "please move this comment from the code to the commit messag

Oh yeah, a TODO is way better than nothing, no disagreement there. If you have a code review step, "please move this comment from the code to the commit message / the bugtracker / whatever" seems like a reasonable comment. If you don't or you're bypassing it or nobody does good code reviews, sure, leave the TODO in. I am indeed talking about the ideal world and whether we think TODO comments are a good idea in the abstract.