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yeah, any comment that can be auto-generated doesn't need to be there in the first place. The real issue might be overly-dogmatic comment/docstring requirements
Even worse. Auto generated comments just copy the how and not the why. If the code has a bug so does the comment.. and if you fix the bug but not the comment somebody else might change the code back to match the comment.