Opinion: The Deleted Lines in Your Diff Are the Riskiest Code You Merge
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The riskiest code in any pull request is not the code you added; it is the code you removed. Reviewers spend their attention on the green side of the diff while deleted lines vanish without a single comment. A removed null-check, a dropped retry, or a deleted fallback can change production behavior…
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- 2026-08-24 14:21 · DEV Community — AI
Opinion: The Deleted Lines in Your Diff Are the Riskiest Code You Merge