diff --git a/routes/api.php b/routes/api.php
index 9ad3ae2c13..c462e27ca4 100644
--- a/routes/api.php
+++ b/routes/api.php
@@ -532,7 +532,9 @@ Route::group(['prefix' => 'v1', 'middleware' => ['api', 'throttle:api']], functi
 
       });
 
-    // pulling this out of resource route group to begin normalizing
+    // pulling this out of resource route group to begin normalizing for route-model binding.
+    // this would probably keep working with the resource route group, but the general practice is for
+    // the model name to be the parameter - and i think it's a good differentiation in the code while we convert the others.
     Route::patch('/hardware/{asset}', [Api\AssetsController::class, 'update'])->name('api.assets.update');
 
         Route::resource('hardware',