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On top of that, the argument was "i hate clean code people because they use bad reasoning (read something in a blog)". These are exclusive from each other. The OC basically argued there are no good reasons for clean code.

I prefer readable code, but I wouldn't call myself a "clean code" person.

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I am in here taking a strong stance against CC, but I am happy to agree with you and steel-man your point: I think Clean Code is perfectly fine and workable in academic and single-developer software projects.

I think most of this pushback (certainly all of mine) is about it creeping into production environments and exacerbating personality traits that tend to be problematic in team settings, which does not invalidate the abstract idea and should instead be scoped to its practice.

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