[martinhath]

> At some point in my programmer career I figured out that optimizing for human comprehension, a.k.a. "clean code", is a valid goal.

Nobody is arguing against comprehensible code. Caseys video is not about clean code in general, but "Clean Code" as presented e.g. in the book by Robert Martin, which contains a bunch of code I would not classify as "clean" by any metric.

> But as others pointed out, he focus on squeezing every bit of performance in the context of real-time video game logic

He doesn't, though. The "Clean Code, Horrible Performance" video is an excerpt from his course called "Performance-Aware Programming", where he explicitly says many times that the course isn't at all about "optimization", but merely being "performance aware". This isn't highlighted in the video though, so getting the full context is difficult.