Refactor or Rot: Designing a Self-Improving Codebase
Coding agents have made it easier to produce software quickly. They have also made an old problem more urgent: every change leaves a codebase behind for the next change. In the inner loop, an agent receives a request, reads code, makes a plan, implements a change, and runs tests. Improving that loo…
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- 2026-11-12 20:40 · DEV Community — AI
Refactor or Rot: Designing a Self-Improving Codebase