Debloating The AI-Grown Codebase
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AI-generated codebases quietly accumulate bloat — defensive abstractions, dead subsystems, redundant state layers, and comments that explain nothing. A weekend experiment using line count (SLOC) as a forcing function cut a Flutter media player from ~19,700 to ~13,500 lines while preserving all features and fixing two latent bugs. The key insight: generating code is cheap, but owning bad AI-grown code is not.
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