Uncle Bob wrote the book on clean code, and the whole argument rests on one number: you read code ten times for every time you write it, so you'd better make it readable. His agents write it now, and he doesn't read a line. This week we discuss who clean code is for now that machines are the ones reading it.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Uncle Bob on Software Fundamentals in the Age of AI — the Matt Pocock interview the whole episode is a reaction to. Yes, he's in a bathrobe.
Infisical — where Adam moved his secrets after a long-running agent read his .env and cheerfully told him so.

With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media.

Full show notes and transcript here.

271: Slop Is the New Clean

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271: Slop Is the New Clean