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2 posts · tagged refactoring · oldest Apr 2026

DEX1 post · 2026

2026·05·26Six hundred lines or it does not shipA 2,313-line orchestrator with a 1,073-line function is maintainable by a human with an IDE and unmaintainable by an agent. The refactor whose acceptance criterion was an agent behaviour, the CI guard that enforced it — and the fact that the guard is red as I write this.agentsarchitecturerefactoring9 min

VEX1 post · 2026watch demo

2026·04·07Six polling loops and a spinning fanVEX was idle and my laptop was audible. The fix was not "poll slower" — it was noticing that a UI which asks "anything new?" sixty times a minute is a UI with no idea what happened.agentsarchitecturerefactoring6 min