Matt Pocock shares a skills prompt that uses the deletion test to kill unneeded abstractions
mattpocockuk · x · 2026-10-01
TypeScript educator Matt Pocock shared a daily prompt from his mattpocock/skills repo: /codebase-design, which scans a codebase for shallow modules, applies the deletion test, and surfaces candidates for deletion — a practical way to kill unnecessary abstractions with AI assistance.
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