Clean Code Cookbook
Maximiliano ContieriA Substack on clean code, refactoring recipes, TDD, science, and more Spanish Version: https://codigolimpio.substack.com/
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AI Coding Tip 033 - Protect Yourself Against AI Cheating
TL;DR: Write the failing test first and ban deletions, or the AI deletes your test, reverts your fix, and calls it done.
Common Mistake ❌
You ask the AI to fix a failing test, and it deletes the test instead of touching the defect tha...
Code Smell 321 - Getter Piggybacking
TL;DR: Don’t reuse an existing getter to bolt on new business logic from outside the object.
Problems 😔
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Duplicated business rules
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Broken encapsulation
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Scattered comparison logic
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Hidden domain knowledge
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Fragile...
AI Coding Tip 032 - Build a Dark Factory Pipeline
TL;DR: Run your pipeline like a dark factory: automated, sampled, and policed by an adversarial model.
Common Mistake ❌
You let one model write a pull request, then hand the same model (or a suspiciously agreeable fresh instance of it...
AI Coding Tip 031 - Stop Over-Prompting Reasoning Models
TL;DR: Reasoning models already verify and pace themselves, so drop those prompts and set real effort, scope, length, autonomy.
Common Mistake ❌
You still write prompts for a model that evolved and stopped needing them.
“Double-check...
AI Coding Tip 030 - Script Your Skills, Not Your Prompts
TL;DR: Turn repeatable skill steps into tested scripts instead of prompts, so behavior stays deterministic and cheap.
Common Mistake ❌
You ask the AI to repeat the same multi-step task through free-form prompting every single time: ca...
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