Uncle Bob Martin Says He No Longer Reads Any Code His Agents Write — Grady Booch Publicly Disagrees

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Robert C. Martin posted that his current strategy is to not read any of the code written by his agents, instead surrounding them with unit tests, gherkin tests, QA procedures, quality metrics, mutation testing and coverage gates — arguing that passing a comprehensive gauntlet gives "very high confidence" the code is correct. The stance drew 47 points and 43 comments on HN and split the developer community, with Grady Booch arguing that metrics cannot catch the vulnerabilities and dead code an experienced engineer recognizes on sight. The irony is load-bearing: Clean Code's central premise was that code is written once and read dozens of times.