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The Author of Clean Code No Longer Reviews AI-Generated Code

5•SantiDev•57m ago
Tweet URL: https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/2080257779395154409?s=20

Robert Martin, the author of Clean Code, tweeted the following:

> I’m significantly older than you. I started coding in the late 60s. My current strategy is to not read any of the code written by my agents. That’s the only way I can take advantage of their productivity. What I do instead is to surround the agents with extreme constraints. Unit tests, gherkin tests, QA procedures, quality metrics, mutation testing, test coverage, and a plethora of others. In the end, I have very high confidence in the code they produce because they’ve had to run the gauntlet of all of my constraints and tests.

Comments

0xedwen•23m ago
the expensive bugs are usually gaps in the spec itself
mirmor23•8m ago
maybe the definition of 'clean code' in the agentic era should be changed to 'the code that complies to the specs, the design constraints and the exhaustive scenario test suite';

this is definitely a better outcome since all the human effort now shifts to spec, design, test scenarios tailored to the domain - as it should be.

having seen my share of human slop through decades (mine included), finally it's a relief to not have to deal with devs that don't have high standards, and the endless arguments/politics that ensue.

with llm it's just a text file away from compliance.

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