fuck-over-engineering
FeaturedUse when the user asks what could be deleted or reduced to simplify a codebase, says "simplify", "over-engineered", or wants a repo-, folder-, or file-wide audit for over-engineering — hunts dead code, reinvented stdlib, needless dependencies, and single-implementation abstractions, reports ranked cuts, applies only the picks. Not a diff review and not a bug hunt
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Quality Score: 90/100
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- Author
- vinta
- Repository
- vinta/hal-9000
- Created
- 10 years ago
- Last Updated
- today
- Language
- Python
- License
- MIT
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audit
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ponytail-review
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