Code and Commit Self-Documentation Philosophy

Code and Comments

• On March 10, 2026, I shared my philosophy on self-documenting code.
• I argued that while code should reveal what it is doing, it rarely explains why it is doing it, which is the proper role of well-written comments.
• I applied the same logic to version control, stating that while a diff shows what changed, the commit message must capture why the change was made.