---
title: "August 12, 2026"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/august-12-2026-8mxuz26xe
source_url: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260812-00
type: article
source: "The Old New Thing"
published: 2026-08-13T05:00:25.639Z
updated: 2026-08-13T05:00:38.949Z
tags: ["code-review", "version-control"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# August 12, 2026

**[The Old New Thing](https://daily.dev/sources/oldnewthing)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A brief reflection on the difference between comments written directly in code versus those included in a pull request description, focusing on how each serves a different temporal purpose - code comments explain the state of the code as it exists, while PR descriptions capture the reasoning and context at the time of the change.

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Tags: [#code-review](https://daily.dev/tags/code-review), [#version-control](https://daily.dev/tags/version-control)

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