Plot twist: Your obsession with "clean code" might be creating technical debt. 🤯
The Problem: Developers read Uncle Bob, watch a few YouTube videos, and suddenly everything needs to be "perfectly abstracted." The result? Over-engineered, hard-to-follow code that's "clean" in theory but nightmare in practice.
Common Clean Code Crimes:
🔸 Premature Abstraction Creating interfaces and abstract classes "just in case" you need them later. YAGNI principle exists for a reason.
🔸 Function Fragmentation Breaking every function into 2-line micro-functions. Sometimes a 20-line function is clearer than 10 scattered 2-line functions.
🔸 Obsessive Naming Spending 30 minutes finding the "perfect" variable name. Good enough is often good enough.
🔸 Pattern Overuse Forcing design patterns where simple, straightforward code would work better.
The Real Clean Code: ✅ Easy to understand ✅ Easy to change ✅ Does what it's supposed to do ✅ Tested and reliable
Clean code isn't about following every principle religiously. It's about writing code that your future self (and your teammates) can understand and modify without crying.
Pragmatism > Purism
What's your take? Are you guilty of over-cleaning? 😅