Clean code didn't get less important in the AI age — it got more important
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Most of the code in my day to day now flows through an agent before it lands in a diff. You'd think that makes clean code less relevant: nobody's staring at this line by line anymore. It's the opposite. The less humans read and write code by hand, the more the shape of the codebase does the work a…
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- 2026-09-13 08:02 · DEV Community — AI
Clean code didn't get less important in the AI age — it got more important