Robert C. Martin, Clean Code author, skips manual AI code reviews

Uncle bob is agent-pilled! https://twitter.com/unclebobmartin/status/2080257779395154409

uncle bob says reading code is dead. https://twitter.com/unclebobmartin/status/2080257779395154409

on the subject of "Uncle Bob says he doesn't read code anymore" https://twitter.com/unclebobmartin/status/2080257779395154409

i wrote an essay about this a few weeks ago but was going to save releasing for a bit. seems like a good time to do it now https://noumena.com/essays/the-engine-shop-part-1/ https://twitter.com/unclebobmartin/status/2080257779395154409

Uncle bob doesn’t read code. The 73 year old, author of one of the most popular coding books ever, Clean Code, doesn’t read code from agents This is the way to code now. Testing, curating & verifying is the most important part You’re not behind an old boomer in adopting ai… Show more

This is such an interesting microcosm of the “AI writing code” discussion. Person 1: I don’t want Claude to edit my files. Person 2: I literally don’t look at the code anymore. Both intelligent, well-reasoned engineers.