Clean code didn't get less important in the AI age — it got more important

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Most of the code in my day to day now flows through an agent before it lands in a diff. You'd think that makes clean code less relevant: nobody's staring at this line by line anymore. Explicit rules a tool enforces, with an exit code that fails the build. Both mattered before LLMs wrote code too. A clean, consistent codebase means new code tends to follow the same clean patterns.

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