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I kind of wish there was a verifier for function/statement comments to flag inaccurate comments (besides interface descriptions + general comment at the top of

I kind of wish there was a verifier for function/statement comments to flag inaccurate comments (besides interface descriptions + general comment at the top of a function.) Sort of a combination of a reverse github auto-pilot metric and checking how old a comment is based on it's surrounding code. You could even syntax highlight based on how accurate it thinks it is like how down voted HN comments fade out.

xwdv 5y ago
People don’t care about accurate comments, they care about comments they agree with.
- tomcam 5y ago
  OK well you just rewrote my worldview. That observation can goes deep as one wishes go go with it...
  - xwdv 5y ago
    It becomes obvious this is the way the world works the more you start to generate unique comments rather than simply agree or upvote other people’s comments.
Natsu 5y ago
You could flag how many revisions it has been since the comments were updated in a function as compared to the code, but if that became a metric, someone would probably start optimizing for it by making trivial comment changes without doing real review.