One Rung per Commit: A Refactor Ladder for Reviewing AI Cleanup Diffs
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A 900-line diff lands in review with a one-line description: "pure cleanup, no behavior change." Nothing in the diff says which of the six things it changed altered the invoice total. By line 400 the reviewer is pattern-matching instead of reasoning, and the honest answer is that nobody knows. This…
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- 2026-10-19 08:18 · DEV Community — AI
One Rung per Commit: A Refactor Ladder for Reviewing AI Cleanup Diffs