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Characterization Tests Are Not Enough: Add a Diff-Budget Guard
Dakota Huang
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Oct 15
Characterization Tests Are Not Enough: Add a Diff-Budget Guard
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Your agent keeps deprecated aliases alive forever. Make it pick a cutover date.
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Your agent keeps deprecated aliases alive forever. Make it pick a cutover date.
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Record Every Side Effect Before You Extract: A Ledger Diff Gate
Dakota Huang
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Oct 16
Record Every Side Effect Before You Extract: A Ledger Diff Gate
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Stop Hand-Writing a Hundred Characterization Tests: Shrink a Recorded Corpus Instead
Dakota Huang
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Stop Hand-Writing a Hundred Characterization Tests: Shrink a Recorded Corpus Instead
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Seed Five Mutations Before You Trust a Characterization Test
Dakota Huang
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Seed Five Mutations Before You Trust a Characterization Test
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Rewrite or Refactor a Legacy Application? How to Decide
Aqib Javaid
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Rewrite or Refactor a Legacy Application? How to Decide
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Refactor a Repo You Don't Understand: Golden Files First, One Change Second
Dakota Huang
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Refactor a Repo You Don't Understand: Golden Files First, One Change Second
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Pin the Fault Matrix Before You Refactor a Messy Module
Dakota Wu
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Pin the Fault Matrix Before You Refactor a Messy Module
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Twenty Repeat Runs Before You Move One Function: A Determinism Gate for Messy Repos
Dakota Huang
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Twenty Repeat Runs Before You Move One Function: A Determinism Gate for Messy Repos
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Go 1.26 Lets new() Take an Expression. Delete Your Pointer Helpers
Gabriel Anhaia
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Go 1.26 Lets new() Take an Expression. Delete Your Pointer Helpers
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How I Split a 3,200-Line God Class Into 14 Modules With Claude Code
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How I Split a 3,200-Line God Class Into 14 Modules With Claude Code
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Let ast-grep Do the Rename. Hand Claude Code Only the Files It Couldn't
Gabriel Anhaia
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Let ast-grep Do the Rename. Hand Claude Code Only the Files It Couldn't
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Best Clean Code and Refactoring Books, and the Order to Read Them
Odilon HUGONNOT
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Best Clean Code and Refactoring Books, and the Order to Read Them
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Refund Clock Tests Before the Smallest Extract
Dakota Huang
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Refund Clock Tests Before the Smallest Extract
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app() Is Not Dependency Injection: 18 Calls Down to Zero
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app() Is Not Dependency Injection: 18 Calls Down to Zero
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