Code Scans(devin.ai) |
Code Scans(devin.ai) |
> Find unused code in our web app. Exclude generated files and test fixtures, and check for indirect references before recommending a removal.
If I "/goal remove unused code" in Claude today, I would not even think to specify "check for indirect references" and "don't consider generated code dead code," those sorts of intuitions have been "built in" to the frontier models for a while now.
So I'm pretty confused by this, what does it do that I can't with an agent swarm?
> Reduce maintenance overhead
> Make your application compile faster
> Find unused code in our web app. Exclude generated files and test fixtures, and check for indirect references before recommending a removal.
If someone came to me with these requirements, I would laugh in their face. These reek of busy work with no actual business benefit. Have these people actually built real software before?
In what world does improving SEO, reducing maintenance overhead and faster compile times not provide any actual business benefit?
> If someone came to me with these requirements, I would laugh in their face.
My god the arrogance is almost tangible. Maybe tone down the greybeard act a bit, yeah? No one’s buying it.