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Set a Change Budget Before You Refactor: A Git-Diff Gate for Messy Repos
Dakota Huang
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Oct 18
Set a Change Budget Before You Refactor: A Git-Diff Gate for Messy Repos
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Score Every Seam Before You Move One: A Blast-Radius Budget for Messy Repos
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Score Every Seam Before You Move One: A Blast-Radius Budget for Messy Repos
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Two Commits per Refactor: A Diff Gate That Keeps Pins Away From the Move
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Two Commits per Refactor: A Diff Gate That Keeps Pins Away From the Move
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Freeze the Clock, Not the Timeout: A Time-Zone Matrix Before You Extract a Module
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Freeze the Clock, Not the Timeout: A Time-Zone Matrix Before You Extract a Module
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Replay Captured Inputs, Then Move One Function: A Flake-Trial Gate for Messy Refactors
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Replay Captured Inputs, Then Move One Function: A Flake-Trial Gate for Messy Refactors
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A Test That Cannot Fail Is Decoration: Gating Model-Drafted Characterization Tests
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A Test That Cannot Fail Is Decoration: Gating Model-Drafted Characterization Tests
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The Agent Converted the If/Else Chain to a Lookup Map and Dropped the Side Effect
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The Agent Converted the If/Else Chain to a Lookup Map and Dropped the Side Effect
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The Agent Added an Await to a Synchronous Function. The Caller Didn't Notice.
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The Agent Added an Await to a Synchronous Function. The Caller Didn't Notice.
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The Agent Deleted the Comment That Explained Why the Code Looks Weird
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The Agent Deleted the Comment That Explained Why the Code Looks Weird
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Refactor Error Paths First: A Fault-Injection Table for Messy Repos
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Refactor Error Paths First: A Fault-Injection Table for Messy Repos
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Twenty Identical Runs, Then One Small Diff: Sealing Entropy Before a Messy Refactor
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Twenty Identical Runs, Then One Small Diff: Sealing Entropy Before a Messy Refactor
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The agent refactored that tiny function for clarity. It doubled the runtime.
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The agent refactored that tiny function for clarity. It doubled the runtime.
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The Agent Flattened Your Custom Error Type Into a Generic Error
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The Agent Flattened Your Custom Error Type Into a Generic Error
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Twenty Identical Runs or No Refactor: A Determinism Gate for Characterization Tests
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Twenty Identical Runs or No Refactor: A Determinism Gate for Characterization Tests
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The agent created a new file instead of editing the existing one. Now there are two.
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The agent created a new file instead of editing the existing one. Now there are two.
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