The Change Ladder: Rank Candidate Diffs by Blast Radius Before You Refactor
Most messy-repo refactors fail on sequencing, not on skill. The safe order is small and boring. Pin one behavior surface, then climb a ladder of changes. Each rung has a known blast radius and a known gate. This post gives you two artifacts. First, a stdlib-only golden-trace recorder. Second, a fiv…
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- 2026-11-06 08:39 · DEV Community — AI
The Change Ladder: Rank Candidate Diffs by Blast Radius Before You Refactor