Comments, Naming, and Abstractions in the AI Era

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AI hasn't killed "Clean Code," but it has changed the audience.
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AI hasn't killed "Clean Code," but it has changed the audience. You are no longer just writing code for human maintainers; you are writing it for LLM Context Windows. Naming is now about semantic predictability, comments are now prompt engineering, and premature abstraction is more dangerous than ever. Here is how to adapt your coding style for the Cyborg Era.