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Codebases are for humans

🌱 Revisited April 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM Created January 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM Software engineering 1 min read
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Codebases should be built for humans, not machines, because they’re inhabited by humans.

Building a codebase for humans means optimizing it for maintainability and thinking about how a human will read and navigate the codebase.

Building a codebase for machines means throwing code at the machine and knowing that it will interpret it correctly, with no regard for whether that code will also be interpretable by a human.

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