This article explains how to build a "guardrail environment" that leverages AI coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor ...

I gave an AI agent one prompt and scored the codebase after every commit. Health 50 to 61, 10,000 lines gone, and a hard stop where tests ran out.

Just having AI write code is not enough. Thoughts from refactoring existing systemsRecently, I have had more opportunities to ...

One thing that most application developers and testers eventually encounter -- especially when working with complex applications or across large teams -- is code smells. "Smelly" code means that the ...

The goal of code refactoring is to fight software entropy and improve nonfunctional attributes of the software. For example, refactoring can help make software code more efficient, resolve bugs, and ...

In the rush to embrace coding assistants like Amazon CodeWhisperer to generate new code for developers, we haven’t spent much time asking if that code is any good. By some measures, the answer is ...

A software developer’s job is never done. They don’t always get their code right on the first time, and it doesn’t always look pretty at first glance. Developers have to constantly modify, improve, ...