I asked my agent to purge 1M lines of code — tests now make up 60% of 13M
vincent_koc · x · 2026-11-14
The author asked his coding agent to find and remove at least 1 million lines of code. He stopped paying attention, and now his codebase is 13M lines with tests making up over 60%. Time, he says, for another agent-led purge — a funny firsthand account of letting agents refactor at scale unsupervised.
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