They are most likely talking about the codebase being consistent within a company / project. Not consistent with pep8. If there are no knobs to turn (like in g

They are most likely talking about the codebase being consistent within a company / project. Not consistent with pep8. If there are no knobs to turn (like in gofmt) everyone just has the same settings and you don't have to make sure everyone sets the knobs to the same values.