# The Author of Clean Code No Longer Reviews AI-Generated Code

> Source: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49074693>
> Published: 2026-07-27 19:47:06+00:00

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Tweet URL: https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/2080257779395154409?s=20 Robert Martin, the author of Clean Code, tweeted the following: > I’m significantly older than you. I started coding in the late 60s. My current strategy is to not read any of the code written by my agents. That’s the only way I can take advantage of their productivity. What I do instead is to surround the agents with extreme constraints. Unit tests, gherkin tests, QA procedures, quality metrics, mutation testing, test coverage, and a plethora of others. In the end, I have very high confidence in the code they produce because they’ve had to run the gauntlet of all of my constraints and tests.
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