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How AI Refactoring Modernizes Legacy SQL Safely

Legacy SQL is hard to change because of hidden dependencies and accumulated technical debt. AI helps by analyzing codebases, spott...

Apr 12, 2026

Code Smell 319 - Hardcoded Stateless Properties

AI can easily detect this smell without explicit instructions. When you show AI a class with new keywords in the constructor, it...

Apr 09, 2026

How We Lost 9 Months to Invisible Architecture Decay (And Fixed It in 3)

Architecture Decision Degradation (ADD) is the slow breakdown of system design caused by stacking “correct” decisions over time. I...

Apr 08, 2026

How to Build a Fast and Reliable Workflow: Refactoring Agent Skills

- If your Skills feel “slow and flaky,” you probably built documentation, not capabilities.- Progressive disclosure is the only s...

Feb 16, 2026

Refactoring 038: Reifying Collections for Type Safety

Passing raw arrays or lists across your system leads to duplicated logic, weak encapsulation, and hidden business rules. By reifyi...

Jan 13, 2026

Code Smell 13 - Empty Constructors

Pass the essence to all your objects so they will not need to mutate.

Jan 05, 2026

Code Smell 12 - Null is Schizophrenic and Does Not Exist in The Real-world

Programmers use Null as different flags. It can hint at an absence, an undefined value, en error etc. Multiple semantics lead to c...

Dec 29, 2025

Code Smell 318 - Wasting Time Refactoring Dirty Code

Don't waste time refactoring code that never changes; focus on frequently modified problem areas.

Dec 10, 2025

Code Smell 315 - Cloudflare Feature Explosion

Overly large auto-generated config can crash your system.

Dec 09, 2025

Refactoring 037 - Testing Private Methods

You can and should test private methods

Dec 04, 2025

Why Gemini 3.0 is a Great Builder But Still Needs a Human in the Loop

I spent a few weeks building a Neuro-Symbolic Manufacturing Engine. I proved that AI can design drones that obey physics. I also p...

Nov 27, 2025

The "Comment" Fallacy: Why Self-Documenting Code is Still the Goal

In the bible of software engineering, Clean Code, comments are often characterized as failures to write expressive code. Unfortuna...

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