alt Hacker NewsI’m so disappointed to see the slip in quality by colleagues I think are better than that. People who used to post great PRs are now posting stuff with random unrelated changes, little structs and helpers all over the place that we already have in common modules etc :’(
> little structs and helpers all over the place that we already have in common modules
I've often wondered about building some kind of automated "this codebase already has this logic" linter
Not sure how it would actually work, otherwise I'd build it. But it would definitely be useful
Maybe an AI tool could do something like that nowadays. "Search this codebase for instances of duplicated functions and list them out" sort of thing