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Stop asking AI to “clean this up”: a safe refactoring loop (with 2 free prompts)

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Ask Cursor, Claude Code or ChatGPT to “clean this up” or “refactor this,” and you’ll usually get something : new folders, renamed symbols, a fashionable pattern, maybe a dependency bump. Sometimes it’s even an improvement. Often it’s an unreviewable rewrite. The diff mixes structure with silent beh…

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  1. 2026-10-15 06:46 · DEV Community — AI
    Stop asking AI to “clean this up”: a safe refactoring loop (with 2 free prompts)

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