For early-stage founders, it’s tempting to treat code comments as polish, something to add later when there’s more time. But in reality, that “later” rarely comes. What looks like a working MVP today without commentary often becomes tomorrow’s black box. And that black box slows onboarding, blocks audits, and turns pivots into rewrites.
Think of it this way: code without context is like a pitch deck without footnotes, but nobody knows what the numbers mean. Comments aren’t overhead; they’re one of the cheapest, highest-leverage investments a startup can make.
