--- title: Something Wonderful | daily.dev description: A humorous Daily WTF post highlighting a useless XML doc comment that simply says 'Does something wonderful.' on a function, with no meaningful description of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/something-wonderful-k4fwwwvzl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Something Wonderful | daily.dev og:description: A humorous Daily WTF post highlighting a useless XML doc comment that simply says 'Does something wonderful.' on a function, with no meaningful description of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/something-wonderful-k4fwwwvzl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/K4FwWwvZl.png og:image:alt: Something Wonderful og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Something Wonderful **[The Daily WTF](https://daily.dev/sources/thedailywtf)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A humorous Daily WTF post highlighting a useless XML doc comment that simply says 'Does something wonderful.' on a function, with no meaningful description of what the function actually does. The submitter notes it's an outlier in an otherwise well-written large codebase. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Comment Overflow](https://daily.dev/posts/comment-overflow-yzsu5jpi3) · The Daily WTF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Classic WTF: A Dumbain Specific Language](https://daily.dev/posts/classic-wtf-a-dumbain-specific-language-jl9lzsius) · The Daily WTF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/something-wonderful-k4fwwwvzl) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Something Wonderful","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/something-wonderful-k4fwwwvzl","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/something-wonderful-k4fwwwvzl"},"datePublished":"2026-07-29T11:25:21.643Z","dateModified":"2026-09-13T19:05:23.079Z","description":"A humorous Daily WTF post highlighting a useless XML doc comment that simply says 'Does something wonderful.' on a function, with no meaningful description of...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--OHB84bZF--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2010","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--OHB84bZF--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2010","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"The Daily WTF","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Daily WTF","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/d21a6aa61a7244d893a3b3284df8e2ef","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/thedailywtf"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/something-wonderful-k4fwwwvzl","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"","timeRequired":"PT1M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Daily WTF","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/thedailywtf"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Something Wonderful"}]} ```