Technical Debt
7 guides tagged “Technical Debt”.
- How to Stop AI Assistants from Duplicating Code Across Your Project AI assistants can't see your entire codebase, so they duplicate validation, formatting, and helper functions everywhere. Here's how to find duplication, extract shared code, and prevent the AI from copying itself again.
- How to Work With an AI Coding Assistant Without Creating a Mountain of Tech Debt AI assistants generate code fast — and generate tech debt faster. Duplicated logic, dead code, over-engineered abstractions. Here's the system for catching these before they accumulate: review, deduplicate, simplify, delete.
- How to Simplify Overly Complex AI-Generated Functions (Without Breaking Them) AI assistants over-engineer everything — factory patterns for one implementation, abstract classes for nothing, 5 nested conditionals for a yes/no. Here's how to simplify AI-generated code to match the actual complexity of the problem.
- How to Refactor AI-Generated Code Without Breaking Your App Your AI assistant wrote a 400-line function and you need to clean it up. Here's the step-by-step refactoring loop that keeps tests green — one small change at a time, with the diff you can actually review.
- How to Find and Remove Dead Code Your AI Assistant Left Behind AI assistants leave dead functions, unused imports, and abandoned abstractions everywhere. Here's how to find dead code with grep and IDE tools, delete it safely, and stop the AI from generating more.
- What Is Technical Debt? Technical debt is the future cost of shortcuts taken today — and AI-generated code creates it faster than ever. Learn to recognize and manage it.
- What Is Refactoring (and How Do You Do It Without Breaking Everything)? Refactoring restructures code without changing behavior. Learn the rule that makes it safe and how to use AI for it without breaking your app.