Goodbye, Clean Code

I read Clean Code myself sometime in the early 2010s. It kicked off a years-long phase of obsessing over things like DRY and refactoring methods into shorter and shorter pieces.

It took until around 2017 for it to wear off and it harmed my career along the way. I was always very grateful to Dan for writing this post. It explains the problem with Clean Code so clearly, and his reputation gives the words a lot of power.

The phenomemon of Clean Code was a net negative for the software industry and the cleanup work is still ongoing.