Mutation-testing Memes

Uncle Bob Martin, the legendary author of "Clean Code," just admitted his management strategy is basically "trust but verify" taken to its most dystopian extreme. He's not reading his team's code to "take advantage of their productivity"—which is honestly the most polite way I've ever heard someone say "I don't trust you nerds to write anything decent without a bureaucratic stranglehold." Instead of code reviews, he's weaponizing the entire testing arsenal: unit tests, gherkin tests, QA procedures, mutation testing, test coverage metrics, and "a plethora of others." Dude's running a software development team like it's a maximum-security prison where the inmates must prove their innocence through an exhaustive gauntlet of automated checks. The irony? The guy who wrote the book on clean, readable code now refuses to read any code at all. It's like Gordon Ramsay saying he won't taste the food but trusts it's good because the kitchen passed health inspection. The real kicker: he has "very high confidence" in code he's never seen because it survived his testing thunderdome. That's not engineering leadership—that's process worship with extra steps.