I worked with a junior dev who suddenly got *really* excited about Clean Code. E...

jghn · 2026-03-06T15:48:24 1772812104

> there was a kernel of good advice, but the book wanted you to take it to such an extreme that it would result in shitty code

I see you're familiar with Uncle Bob's handiwork

ansgri · 2026-03-06T14:46:15 1772808375

I feel like half of junior programmers are susceptible to this.

teddyh · 2026-03-06T16:02:28 1772812948

There is now a second edition of that book which has supposedly been rewritten to fix that.

oldestofsports · 2026-03-06T17:56:39 1772819799

It strongly pushes for max 3 LOC per function, and I am not even joking.