my hypothesis is that maintainability is not as important as it used to be. the whole point of “making code easy to change” was because it took a lot of human effort to change code. well, agents make it trivial! thought experiment: if the code is correct, bug free, fast and eff…↗

it's very interesting how many replies i've gotten about maintainability and clean code being still important. i would argue that that is no longer true and we all need to update our priors on what Good Code really means in 2026. clean code has always come at a cost - performanc…↗

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