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Clean Code Cookbook

Maximiliano Contieri

A Substack on clean code, refactoring recipes, TDD, science, and more Spanish Version: https://codigolimpio.substack.com/

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Latest Issues

AI Coding Tip 039 - Give the AI a Zeroth Law

TL;DR: Write your own Zeroth Law: an explicit, ranked list of everything the AI can’t do.

Common Mistake ❌

You hand the AI a task the same way you’d hand it to a new (human) coworker.

You say clean up this module or `deploy this to...

6 days ago
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AI Coding Tip 038 - Make the AI Ask Before It Builds

TL;DR: Force the AI to ask about the decisions you left out before it builds anything (/megaplan).

Common Mistake ❌

You type a one-line request like build a site to monitor AI progress and the risk of AI rebelling and expect a working...

13 days ago
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AI Coding Tip 037 - Stop Patching Blind

TL;DR: Patch code that never had a test written for it, and every quick fix becomes tomorrow’s outage.

Common Mistake ❌

You assume a decades old, stable feature must have some kind of safety net, because it has been shipping without c...

20 days ago
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AI Coding Tip 036 - Grant AI the Least Privilege Possible

TL;DR: Give every AI agent only the access its task needs, and watch for the intrusion nobody granted.

Common Mistake ❌

You wire an AI agent straight into a production API with an admin key, because scoping down every tool call felt l...

a month ago

AI Coding Tip 035 - Write Skill Descriptions in Three Sentences

TL;DR: Split every skill description into three sentences: when to read it, when to use it, and what it does.

Common Mistake ❌

You write a skill description as one long paragraph.

It explains everything the skill does.

You list ever...

a month ago

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