The author has took the wrong lesson from this experience. The issue was surely almost exclusively that done first year coder decided to change someone else's c

The author has took the wrong lesson from this experience. The issue was surely almost exclusively that done first year coder decided to change someone else's code without talking to them first. I don't think it would have mattered if the committed code was literally the worst code ever written (providing it wasn't going to delete the internet). The author refers to this but by calling the article "good bye clean code" they have completely missed the point.