A Very Silly Joke

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A Very Silly Joke

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The ultimate dad joke for developers right here. The punchline is literally the answer: "No comment." Because what makes code bad? A lack of comments! The journalist walks right into the setup asking about code quality, and the programmer delivers the most meta response possible. It's both the answer to the question AND a demonstration of the problem itself. The wordplay works on two levels—it's a dismissive "no comment" like you'd tell a reporter, but also the literal absence of code comments that makes codebases unmaintainable nightmares. Every developer who's inherited undocumented legacy code just felt that one in their soul.

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