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Code quality affects coding agents. Clean code still mattters. Hallelujah. arxiv.org/pdf/2605.20049

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Brady Hawkins

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4 Aug

"Clean" in the authors definition isn't the same as human maintainable.

Brady Hawkins

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4 Aug

The methodology here is suspect too. Implementing rules from SonarQube with agents and then turning fresh agents onto those problems seems like it is biased towards better results.

Brady Hawkins

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Also theres no control for a messy but agent friendly codebase.

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Brady Hawkins

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4 Aug

And just Claude code? Come on.

Brady Hawkins

@bradyhawkins.dev

4 Aug

The structure of this leaves something to be desired. What happens with agents over time. Agent writes code. Code gets messier. Next agent works on it. Next agent adds more mess. Complexity compounds. This isn't how real software works.