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For sure. Another interesting trick I found to be surprisingly effective is to ask Claude Code to “Look around the codebase, and if something is confusing, or weird/counterintuitive — drop a AIDEV-QUESTION: … comment so I can document that bit of code and/or improve it”. We found some really gnarly things that had been forgotten in the codebase.

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But why stick with the AIDEV- style? I mean, this is what comments are for: explaining the why that can’t be read from code. You could just make it a regular comment, right?

yup but:

1. AIDEV-* is easier to visually distinguish, and

2. it is grep-able by the models, so they can "look around" the codebase in one glance

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