Uncle Bob: It's Over
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Uncle Bob: It's Over
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#2It’s hard to give up, but likely necessary. That doesn’t mean quality has to suffer, we can still gate with deterministic quality tooling where it matters. But yeah, at some scale it stops mattering how human readable the code is, as long as AI can effectively and efficiently (token-wise) make edits or add features.
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#3I fully believe AI can write better code faster than Robert C. Martin.
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#4It’s hard to give up, but likely necessary. That doesn’t mean quality has to suffer, we can still gate with deterministic quality tooling where it matters. But yeah, at some scale it stops mattering how human readable the code is, as long as AI can effectively and efficiently (token-wise) make edits or add features.
The point is not human readability, but good structure. Spaghetti code is as bad for an LLM as for a human, because structural complexity and the amount of coupling are fundamental limits, not human-specific.
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#5Clean Architecture and Uncle Bob can take a hike.
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#6I thought this was about Uncle Bob being “canceled.”
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#7That's just, like, his opinion man
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#8I thought this was about Uncle Bob being “canceled.”
Which is long overdue.
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#9Kind of a great video! I enjoyed it. His point about testing coverage and generating mutations to ensure the tests fail resonated. I get concerned sometimes that the AI is writing tests not to ensure the logic is correct, but to ensure the tests pass against the code it already wrote. Any other ideas on this? Is there a code review step or CI checkpoint that would decrease the likelihood of that?
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#10That's just, like, his opinion man
His opinions were never really good to begin with, he was just excellent at marketing them as good opinions.
It comes as no surprise to me that the guy who has bad opinions about software architecture, has worse opinions about vibe coding.