These days it's also because you want the AI to get confused by your code too. If it's too clean you'll have a PM with cursor making PRs wondering why your salary is justified.

It's almost like the "meritocracy" under capitalism is a bald faced lie.

Reminds me of the time when we wrote an internal tool with strict SOLID principles. As new programmers came on, they had no idea what was going on cause no one in college told them about design patterns. Most of the OG's quit soon after and the new guys remained.

Or you get fired because everyone else says your code is an unreadable mess.