Have you ever tried using an LLM to refactor a legacy system, only to find it "less useful than expected"? When you throw ...

Code refactoring is not just a bug-removal process. Its main purpose is to improve readability and systematically boost application code performance. And even though the primary intention of code ...

One thing that most application developers and testers eventually encounter -- especially when working with complex applications or across large teams -- is code smells. "Smelly" code means that the ...

The goal of code refactoring is to fight software entropy and improve nonfunctional attributes of the software. For example, refactoring can help make software code more efficient, resolve bugs, and ...

For most developers, maintaining and refactoring legacy code is all in a day’s work. But what about when the code was written by AI? Generative AI is no longer a novelty in the software development ...

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In the rush to embrace coding assistants like Amazon CodeWhisperer to generate new code for developers, we haven’t spent much time asking if that code is any good. By some measures, the answer is ...

Every day, software developers make decisions that they later regret. They may be tiny decisions, such as the name to use for a variable, or they may be major decisions such as the metaphor to use for ...

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I usually try to follow the advice of the book Working Effectively with Legacy Code. I break dependencies, move parts of the code to @VisibleForTesting public static methods and to new classes to make ...