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Count the Argument Shapes Your Fixtures Never See Before Refactoring a Messy Module
Dakota Wu
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Oct 26
Count the Argument Shapes Your Fixtures Never See Before Refactoring a Messy Module
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Break Your Code on Purpose: A Kill-Rate Gate for Characterization Tests
Dakota Huang
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Oct 26
Break Your Code on Purpose: A Kill-Rate Gate for Characterization Tests
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Let the Free Model Write Inputs, Not Assertions: A Mutation Gate Before Your Refactor
Dakota Huang
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Oct 26
Let the Free Model Write Inputs, Not Assertions: A Mutation Gate Before Your Refactor
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Before the Smallest Safe Change, Prove Your Characterization Tests Can Fail
Dakota Huang
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Oct 26
Before the Smallest Safe Change, Prove Your Characterization Tests Can Fail
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app() Is Not Dependency Injection: 18 Calls Down to Zero
Ivan Mykhavko
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Oct 25
app() Is Not Dependency Injection: 18 Calls Down to Zero
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Pin the Order, Not Just the Value: an Interaction Ledger for Messy-Repo Refactors
Dakota Huang
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Oct 26
Pin the Order, Not Just the Value: an Interaction Ledger for Messy-Repo Refactors
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Our homepage promises a CSV export, and the feature page for it says nothing has to be exported
Daniel Pertu
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Oct 23
Our homepage promises a CSV export, and the feature page for it says nothing has to be exported
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Technical Debt: The Hidden Cost of Moving Fast in Software Development
Ahmed Omeiza
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Oct 23
Technical Debt: The Hidden Cost of Moving Fast in Software Development
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Sacrificial Architecture: Building the Service You Already Plan to Delete
Andrii B.
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Oct 21
Sacrificial Architecture: Building the Service You Already Plan to Delete
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The Agent Renamed the Symbol but Left the Old Name in the Error String
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Oct 21
The Agent Renamed the Symbol but Left the Old Name in the Error String
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We Stopped Importing Spring Into the Domain Module. The Compile Errors Exposed 30 Boundary Violations.
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Oct 21
We Stopped Importing Spring Into the Domain Module. The Compile Errors Exposed 30 Boundary Violations.
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We locked 25,396 behaviors before our agent refactors its own code, bugs included
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We locked 25,396 behaviors before our agent refactors its own code, bugs included
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The agent split the giant PR into three smaller PRs — and the bug that lived between them stayed invisible
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The agent split the giant PR into three smaller PRs — and the bug that lived between them stayed invisible
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Spec-Driven Refactoring: What I Learned from Handing an 800-Line Java Monolith to AI
Ayush Kaushik
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Oct 20
Spec-Driven Refactoring: What I Learned from Handing an 800-Line Java Monolith to AI
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Prove the Smallest Safe Change Is Mechanical: An AST Diff Gate
Dakota Huang
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Prove the Smallest Safe Change Is Mechanical: An AST Diff Gate
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