Reminder: Refactor your code

Jul 17 (edited) • Tutorials

Inspired by the post by

, I wanted to give everyone a reminder to regularly refactor your code

Over time, AI gets your code to be a mess. So you should regularly ask it to clean it up

Instead of asking AI to "refactor the code", ask it to:

Eliminate dead code: “Delete unused imports, variables, and functions; point out any test files that still call them.”
Kill duplication: “Detect code blocks duplicated ⩾ 3 times across modules; create a shared utility and update call sites.”
Improve architecture: "Identify features or sections of the app that could be extracted to a separate module."

You can also use these to target a specific part of the application

Note: the list is not exhaustive! Let me know if you want to know more about this

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