Surviving Tech Debt: How 2,611 Golang Linter Issues Solved in 3 Days

A solo developer used AI agents to eliminate 2,611 Go lint issues in 3.5 days by restructuring the workflow around “Double Isolation”: limiting context per package and splitting linters into tiers. With AST-based diffs, apidiff safeguards, and architectural rules, AI became a reliable refactoring engine—proving that constraint design, not raw model power, is the key to scaling AI in large codebases.