The Codebase Should Sound Like One Person

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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