I see comments as a failure of my prose capacity at coding. I try to commit code that should be able to explain itself as if it were accompanied by any comments

I see comments as a failure of my prose capacity at coding. I try to commit code that should be able to explain itself as if it were accompanied by any comments. But if something is too confusing to be maintained by someone else (like me 6 months from now), then I use a comment. But that is a sad moment because I also know that this future person can update the code and not update the comment, then the thing becomes even more confusing. TODOs should never be in committed code; they should live in your project/issue management system.