Dakota Huang - DEV Community

Dakota Huang

Nov 10

Split the Pin From the Change: A Diff-Budget Gate for AI-Assisted Refactors

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Dakota Huang

Nov 10

Your Golden Output Test Misses Call Order. Pin the Interaction Log First.

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Dakota Huang

Nov 9

Let the Model Propose, Let the Corpus Reject: A Change-Budget Loop for Messy Repos

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Dakota Huang

Nov 9

Trace Callee Hits First: How to Scope One Safe Edit in a Messy Repo

#testing #refactoring #python #tooling

4 min read

Dakota Huang

Nov 9

Cap the Diff, Not the Ambition: A Line-Budget Gate for Messy-Repo Refactors

#testing #refactoring #python #ci

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Dakota Huang

Nov 9

Cap the Diff at One Seam: Picking the Smallest Safe Refactor After Characterization

#refactoring #testing #legacycode #python

4 min read

Dakota Huang

Nov 9

Characterize the Failure Path First: A Fault Matrix Before Your Smallest Refactor

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Dakota Huang

Nov 9

Run It Twenty Times Before You Pin It: Characterization Tests for Messy Repos

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Dakota Huang

Nov 9

Freeze the Output Before You Touch the Function: A Behavior Census for Untested Code

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Dakota Huang

Nov 9

Freeze the Clock Before You Refactor: Characterization Tests for Impure Code

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6 min read

Dakota Huang

Nov 8

Characterization Tests First: Freeze a Messy Function, Then Make One Safe Edit

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Dakota Huang

Nov 8

Characterize First, Then Refactor: A Golden-Corpus Harness With a Mutation Gate

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Dakota Huang

Nov 8

The Patch Window: Let a Model Refactor Only Lines Your Tests Already Cover

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Dakota Huang

Nov 8

One Revertible Slice at a Time: A Diff Budget for Messy Repos

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Dakota Huang

Nov 8

Refactor One Exit at a Time: The Exit-Path Ledger for Messy Functions

#refactoring #testing #python #legacy

6 min read

Dakota Huang

Nov 8

One Seam Per Patch: How to Measure the Smallest Safe Refactor

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Dakota Huang

Nov 8

A Rollback Drill and a Per-Commit Green Gate for Messy Refactors

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Dakota Huang

Nov 7

The Revert Residue Check: Prove Your Small Refactor Leaves Nothing Behind

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Dakota Huang

Nov 7

Dual-Run Parity Beats a Bigger Diff: Flipping a Messy Refactor Safely

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4 min read

Dakota Huang

Nov 7

The Smallest Safe Refactor Is Two Commits: Seam First, Move Second

#refactoring #testing #python #git

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Dakota Huang

Nov 7

Every Refactor Commit Should Be Green and Revertible: A Bisect Audit

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4 min read

Dakota Huang

Nov 7

Run the Old Function Beside the New One Before You Delete It

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Dakota Huang

Nov 7

Give the Refactor a Diff Budget Before You Touch the Messy Repo

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Dakota Huang

Nov 7

Swap One Seam, Dual-Run Both Implementations, Then Delete the Old Path

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4 min read

Dakota Huang

Nov 7

Retire the Golden Master: A Deletion Ledger for Refactors That Already Landed

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Dakota Huang

Nov 6

Zero-Surface Refactors: Fingerprint the Public Interface Before You Split the Diff

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Dakota Huang

Nov 6

Refactor a Messy Repo With a Diff Budget and One Frozen Seam

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Dakota Huang

Nov 6

Prove Your Characterization Test Can Fail Before You Refactor

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Dakota Huang

Nov 6

Three Gates Before the Refactor: Freeze Order, Drafted Tests, Flake Census

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Dakota Huang

Nov 6

The Change Ladder: Rank Candidate Diffs by Blast Radius Before You Refactor

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Dakota Huang

Nov 6

Your Characterization Test Captured the Clock: Prove Stability Before You Pin a Golden Master

#testing #refactoring #python #legacy

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Dakota Huang

Nov 5

A Passing Characterization Test Proves Nothing Until You Break the Code

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Dakota Huang

Nov 5

Run Your Characterization Recorder Three Times Before You Trust It

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Dakota Huang

Nov 5

Prove Your Characterization Tests Can Fail: A Mutation Preflight for Messy Repos

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Dakota Huang

Nov 5

Prove Each Golden Can Fail Before You Refactor the Messy Repo

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6 min read

Dakota Huang

Nov 5

Import First, Refactor Second: Triage a Repo Nobody Can Run

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Dakota Huang

Nov 5

Your Characterization Tests Are Guarding Dead Code: A Coverage Census for Messy Repos

#testing #refactoring #python #tooling

6 min read

Dakota Huang

Oct 28

The Diff Budget: Prove the Smallest Safe Refactor Before You Merge It

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Dakota Huang

Oct 27

Lock the Public Surface Before the Refactor: A Manifest Gate for AI-Proposed Diffs

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6 min read

Dakota Huang

Oct 27

Your Refactor Copies a List. The Caller Still Holds the Old One.

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5 min read

Dakota Huang

Oct 27

Replay the Seam: A Differential Gate for the Smallest Safe Refactor

#testing #refactoring #python #automation

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Dakota Huang

Oct 27

Run It Ten Times Before You Write One Characterization Test

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Dakota Huang

Oct 27

Two Runs Must Agree Before You Freeze a CLI Transcript

#testing #refactoring #python #cli

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Dakota Huang

Oct 27

Count the Clocks Before Characterization Tests: A Nondeterminism Census for Messy Repos

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Dakota Huang

Oct 27

Map Every Changed Line to the Test That Ran It Before You Refactor

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6 min read

Dakota Huang

Oct 27

Pin the Order of Side Effects Before the Refactor: An Effect Ledger Gate

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Dakota Huang

Oct 27

Record What Your Code Throws Before You Refactor It

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Dakota Huang

Oct 26

Your Characterization Tests Passed. The Side Effects Changed Order.

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Dakota Huang

Oct 26

Triage Nondeterminism Before Golden Tests: A Probe for Messy Repos

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7 min read

Dakota Huang

Oct 26

Pin the Order, Not Just the Value: an Interaction Ledger for Messy-Repo Refactors

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Dakota Huang

Oct 26

Let the Free Model Write Inputs, Not Assertions: A Mutation Gate Before Your Refactor

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Dakota Huang

Oct 26

Before the Smallest Safe Change, Prove Your Characterization Tests Can Fail

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Dakota Huang

Oct 26

Break Your Code on Purpose: A Kill-Rate Gate for Characterization Tests

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6 min read

Dakota Huang

Oct 20

Prove the Smallest Safe Change Is Mechanical: An AST Diff Gate

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Dakota Huang

Oct 20

Census the Names a Function Reads Before You Extract It

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Dakota Huang

Oct 20

Freeze the Export Surface Before a Messy Refactor: A Manifest Gate in Python

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6 min read

Dakota Huang

Oct 20

Test the Process, Not the Module: A Black-Box Characterization Gate for a Repo You Can't Import

#testing #refactoring #python #legacy

5 min read

Dakota Huang

Oct 20

Time Your Safety Net First: A Budget Gate for Characterization Tests in Messy Repos

#testing #refactoring #performance #devops

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Dakota Huang

Oct 20

Characterize the Boundary, Not the Module: An Import-Graph Gate for Messy Refactors

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Dakota Huang

Oct 19

Census Every Raise Site Before You Move a Module

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