Score the Tangle First: Pick Your Refactor Seam by Churn and Fan-In
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The refactor decision you skip Most messy-repo refactors fail at target selection. The scariest-looking function gets picked by feel. Three days later the pull request touches forty files. Fan-in and churn decide how expensive a change really is. Neither is visible by reading the code. Both are mea…
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- 2026-09-14 22:03 · DEV Community — AI
Score the Tangle First: Pick Your Refactor Seam by Churn and Fan-In