The best codebases I’ve worked in
felt like they had a single author.
Same patterns. Same rhythm.
You could guess where things lived.
It wasn’t that one person wrote them.
It’s that everyone agreed to sound the same.
I used to want my code to stand out.
Now I want it to blend in.
Consistency is a kindness.
It lets the next person predict instead of decode.
The goal isn’t your signature on every file.
It’s a codebase that reads like one calm voice.
– Serguey Asael Shinder
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