It kinda started with Clean Code. I remember some old colleagues walking around with the book in their hand and deleting ten year old comments in every commit they made: "You see, we don't need that anymore, because the code describes itself". It made a generation (generations?) of software developers think that all the architectural patterns were found now, we can finally do real engineering and just have to find the one that fits for the problem at hand! Everyone asked the SOLID principles during interviews, because that's how real engineers design! I think "cargo cult" was getting used at that time too to describe this phenomenon.
It was (is) bad. The worst part is they the majority of people pushing it haven’t even read Clean Code. They’ve read a blog post by a guy who read a blog post by a guy who skimmed the book.
It kinda started with Clean Code. I remember some old colleagues walking around with the book in their hand and deleting ten year old comments in every commit they made: "You see, we don't need that anymore, because the code describes itself". It made a generation (generations?) of software developers think that all the architectural patterns were found now, we can finally do real engineering and just have to find the one that fits for the problem at hand! Everyone asked the SOLID principles during interviews, because that's how real engineers design! I think "cargo cult" was getting used at that time too to describe this phenomenon.
It was (is) bad. The worst part is they the majority of people pushing it haven’t even read Clean Code. They’ve read a blog post by a guy who read a blog post by a guy who skimmed the book.