Is Clean Code Dead in the AI Era? Why Senior Devs Are Turning on Uncle Bob

Back in 2008, when Robert C. Martin published Clean Code, the software world looked completely different. There was no GitHub Copilot, no Claude writing entire functions while you go grab a coffee, and most conversations about code quality revolved around human teams trying not to kill each other during code review. Almost two decades later, the book is still sitting on every dev's shelf, right next to The Pragmatic Programmer and Design Patterns. But a few years ago an uncomfortable question started popping up in forums and on Twitter (X now, though nobody's really adjusted to the name) — what if Uncle Bob's principles are, in practice, making software slower and more convoluted than it needed to be? read more: https://chat-to.dev/post?id=am5zS3BGcGpHVmVGdWJBWlFTdmJhUT09