AnalysisDevelopersOctober 14, 2026

Deleting 168,000 Lines of Comments Didn't Change AI Agent Output

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A developer stripped every comment from a codebase (~168,000 lines) and ran the same agent on both versions three times per task; all runs passed lint, type checks, tests, and a hidden test. On the smaller task the agent used about 22% fewer tokens without comments.

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