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Dakota Wu

Sep 24

Cap the First Extract at One Stable Seam

#testing #refactoring #python #programming

6 min read

Dakota Wu

Sep 23

Record One Nested Decision, Then Extract a Single Predicate

#python #testing #refactoring #productivity

7 min read

Dakota Wu

Sep 22

Weekend Drift in SLA Deadlines: Characterize First, Extract Next-Open Last

#testing #python #refactoring #productivity

8 min read

Dakota Wu

Sep 21

Tape One Entry Point Before You Extract Anything From a Messy Module

#python #testing #refactoring #ai

7 min read

Dakota Wu

Sep 20

Start a Messy-Repo Extract With a Package Boundary Freeze

#testing #python #productivity #ai

7 min read

Dakota Wu

Sep 18

Golden-File a Messy Reporter Before You Extract a Status Mapper

#python #testing #refactoring #ai

7 min read

Dakota Wu

Sep 17

Build an Environment Ledger Before Cleaning a Tangled CLI

#testing #python #refactoring #ai

7 min read

Dakota Wu

Sep 16

Pin a Characterization Suite Before You Accept the First Refactor Diff

#testing #python #refactoring #ai

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8 min read

Dakota Wu

Sep 14

Retry Amplification: A Circuit Breaker for Batch Model Jobs

#python #ai #reliability #agents

6 min read

Dakota Wu

Sep 13

Pin Sort Keys and Rounding Before You Extract a Helper From a Totals Loop

#testing #python #refactoring #ai

7 min read

Dakota Wu

Sep 12

A Hashed Output Corpus Makes a Transformer Refactor Auditable

#testing #refactoring #python #ai

7 min read

Dakota Wu

Sep 11

Freeze the Export Manifest Before You Touch a Tangled Batch Job

#testing #python #refactoring #productivity

7 min read

Dakota Wu

Sep 9

Map Every Call Site Before You Split a God Function

#testing #refactoring #python #agents

8 min read

Dakota Wu

Sep 8

Hash the Side-Effect Ledger Before You Accept a Cleanup Refactor

#testing #python #ai #productivity

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7 min read

Dakota Wu

Sep 6

Replay the CLI Contract Before You Accept an Agent Diff

#python #testing #refactoring #ai

8 min read

Dakota Wu

Sep 5

Characterize the Mess First, Then Make One Safe Change

#testing #javascript #refactoring #ai

8 min read

Dakota Wu

Sep 4

Write Characterization Tests Before the First Extract

#testing #python #ai #architecture

7 min read

Dakota Wu

Sep 4

Stop Pricing Coding Agents in Tokens. Price Them in Failed Attempts.

#ai #llm #programming #opinion

5 min read

Dakota Wu

Sep 4

Freeze the Blast Radius Before an Agent Rewrites a Messy Module

#python #testing #ai #productivity

8 min read

Dakota Wu

Sep 2

Stop Rerunning Flaky Tests. Build an Evidence Log Instead.

#testing #ci #python #ai

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5 min read

Dakota Wu

Sep 1

Check an AI Patch in 10 Minutes: A Free-Model and Free-Server Recipe

#ai #webdev #testing #productivity

4 min read

Dakota Wu

Aug 31

A Free-Tier Safety Net for Refactoring Ugly Legacy Code

#testing #refactoring #productivity #ai

5 min read

Dakota Wu

Aug 30

Your AI Refactor Needs a Behavioral Fingerprint, Not Just a Diff

#ai #testing #refactoring #devops

5 min read

Dakota Wu

Aug 29

Let an Agent Write Your Characterization Tests Before You Refactor Legacy Code

#testing #refactoring #legacycode #ai

4 min read

Dakota Wu

Aug 28

Refactor a Messy Repo Without Breaking It: Characterization Tests, Then the Smallest Safe Change

#testing #refactoring #ai #python

5 min read

Dakota Wu

Aug 26

Mutation Testing on a Budget: Free Models, Free Server, Real Test Quality

#testing #ai #webdev #devops

4 min read

Dakota Wu

Aug 25

Stop Blaming the Model When Your Agent Repeats the Same Mistake

#ai #agents #llm #python

5 min read

Dakota Wu

Aug 25

Treat Your Agent's Free Server Like a Compromised Machine

#ai #security #devops #agents

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4 min read

Dakota Wu

Aug 24

Your Coding Agent Doesn't Need a Smarter Model. It Needs a Tighter Loop.

#ai #testing #productivity #devops

5 min read

Dakota Wu

Aug 23

Free Tokens Are Better Spent Fuzzing Your Own Code Than Benchmarking Someone Else's

#testing #python #ai #opensource

4 min read

Dakota Wu

Aug 22

Why the Most Honest Coding-Agent Evaluation Runs on Free Infrastructure

#ai #agents #testing #llm

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5 min read

Dakota Wu

Aug 17

Don't Trust a New Model's Benchmarks Until You Run Your Own 30-Minute Smoke Test

#ai #programming #benchmarking #opensource

5 min read

Dakota Wu

Aug 10

A Boundary-Failure Test Plan for Coding Agents You Can Run on Free Model Tiers

#security #ai #agents #testing

5 min read

Dakota Wu

Aug 7

A Prompt Regression Pack You Can Run Against Free Model Tiers Before Paying for Anything

#ai #testing #programming #productivity

6 min read

Dakota Wu

Aug 5

A Reproducible Harness for Comparing Coding Agents Before You Trust Their Numbers

#ai #agents #testing #devtools

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