"Clean code" is just a buzzword that people use in interviews, on blogposts aimed at employers, and to make programmers believe they are good programmers, since

"Clean code" is just a buzzword that people use in interviews, on blogposts aimed at employers, and to make programmers believe they are good programmers, since they already bought the koolaid. If you break it down to its principles, and then explain its advantages and disadvantages for the problem at hand, then it's respectable; but used as a buzzword it should ring alarm bells.