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Uncle Bob Martin (@unclebobmartin) — X.com — 6:44 AM · 7/23/26 · 1.2M Views
I’m significantly older than you. I started coding in the late 60s. My current strategy is to not read any of the code written by my agents. That’s the only way I can take advantage of their productivity. What I do instead is to surround the agents with extreme constraints. Unit tests, gherkin tests, QA procedures, quality metrics, mutation testing, test coverage, and a plethora of others. In the end, I have very high confidence in the code they produce because they’ve had to run the gauntlet of all of my constraints and tests.
Fact-Check Notes
- Quote and attribution verified: this matches, word for word, the tweet posted by @unclebobmartin (Robert C. Martin, “Uncle Bob,” the Clean Code / SOLID / Agile Manifesto co-author) on 2026-07-23, which is consistent with the file’s cited timestamp. The tweet is real and the attribution is plausible — it generated substantial discussion (Hacker News, multiple quote-tweets) about AI-agent-assisted development.
- Minor factual wrinkle: “I started coding in the late 60s” is a self-reported biographical claim by Martin. Published biographies (e.g. Wikipedia, his own “Uncle Bob Consulting” bio) commonly state he has been a software professional “since 1970” — he was born December 5, 1952, so he’d have turned 18 in December 1970. “Late 60s” is a couple of years earlier than the commonly cited start date, though it’s plausible he was coding informally (school/hobby) before his professional career began; this is a soft discrepancy, not a clear error, and it’s his own self-report so hard to falsify definitively.
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