Questions tagged [refactoring]

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Prompts that restructure code safely.
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Prompt for reviewing a diff with severity levels instead of vague nitpicks

Our AI code reviews were noise: a wall of "consider renaming this" and "you could add a comment" mixed in with the occasional actual security bug, all weighted the same. People started ignoring the bo
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Splitting a 600-line god function into pure units without behavior drift

The worst function in our codebase does input parsing, three network calls, retry logic, formatting, and logging in one 600-line block. I wanted GPT to carve it into small pure functions plus a thin o
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