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Where Does Bad Code Come From?

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What it is

Casey Muratori's invited lecture on where bad code comes from, rebroadcast from a Twitch stream. He critiques conventional wisdom such as SOLID and Clean Code and argues about how those habits lead to slow, poorly structured software.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters cite it as a sharp critique of SOLID, Clean Code and 'non-pessimized' programming, and as context for why software is getting worse.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “There's a good take on this by Casey Muratori”

    Good take that SOLID and Clean Code are just buzzwords.

    _hao, 2022-01 · Recommendation · in “There’s No Such Thing as Clean Code”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: clean code, solid, code quality, performance, casey muratori

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