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I asked Claude to tell me why something was implemented the way it was, and got an excellent response. One data point, would love to hear more examples.
by chris_st 5mo ago
I asked Claude to tell me why something was implemented the way it was, and got an excellent response. One data point, would love to hear more examples.
- rectang 5mo agoI agree, Claude has been pretty great at explaining code. It even does well at explaining to me old code that I wrote by hand — including both non-intuitive quirks and flaws. Claude in its default configuration has untapped potential for explaining and documenting code because it defaults to writing no comments. I added this to my global CLAUDE.md and so far so good: # Comments Keep existing comments unless they're wrong or stale. Err slightly toward adding short explanatory comments for non-obvious code.
- chris_st 5mo agoAwesome, stealing that!