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Sadly there seems to be nothing so attractive to a new(ish) programmer than a shiny silver bullet wrapped neatly into some popular or fashionable term, or better yet a three letter acronym.

Our industry features codebases that approach “big balls of mud” as complexity increases. Last week it was called “agile”, this week “clean code”. Perhaps “agile microserviced functionally hexagonal clean code” (AMFHCC™) next?




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