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Clean code rules were built for human memory limits, not machines.
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DRY, SOLID, and small functions were never built for computers. They were built for the four-to-seven item ceiling on human working memory. Once an AI agent is the primary reader of your codebase, deep abstraction costs more than it returns, and technical debt stops being about how code looks and starts being about test latency, boundary integrity, and runtime cost.