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The Art of Code Texture

Understanding the visual and structural "feel" of code that makes it uniquely human.

Code has a shape. If you zoom out and squint, you can see the "texture" of a file. This texture is often the biggest giveaway of whether a human or a machine wrote it.

The Shape of AI

AI code tends to be:

**Uniform**: Blocks are of similar size.
**Dense**: High density of comments to code.
**Vertical**: Lots of newlines, spacing things out unnecessarily.

It looks like a textbook example. It's the "Lorem Ipsum" of programming.

The Shape of Human

Human code is:

**Jagged**: A one-line helper function next to a 50-line complex algorithm.
**Sparse**: Comments only where necessary.
**Horizontal**: Humans love one-liners, ternary operators, and chaining methods if it makes the logic flow better.

Visualizing the Vibe

Think of code as music.

**AI** is a metronome. Tick. Tick. Tick. Perfect rhythm, no soul.
**Human** is Jazz. Syncopated. Fast runs. Slow ballads. Unexpected changes.

Developing Your Texture

Don't be afraid to break the "rules" of clean code if it makes your code more readable *to you*.

Group related variables together, even if it breaks alphabetical order.
Use whitespace to separate logical "paragraphs" of code, not just every line.
Delete code. The best texture is often negative space.

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