Keeping a codebase clean now pays off directly rather than aesthetically, because a coding agent will copy the patterns already in it almost exactly.

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• The specific rules taught as clean code are simply bad programming practices, and they get worse when you apply them together. CMCasey Muratori26 Aug 2026similar wording
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