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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Legacy systems exude a certain fascination because they offer their own unique, exciting challenges. These can be much more interesting than assembling modern frameworks into an application from ...

In which a coworker advocates for "one big refactoring" rather than smaller tests. I suppose it depends on the system and how critical it is. I work for a company that does avionics software and one ...

Once a developer finishes writing code and it works, it can feel like the job is done. It is not. The job is over when the code is refactored and cleaned up. Developers inevitably work to a deadline ...