📚 Tutorial: Dakota Huang

Dakota Huang

Sep 1

Your Refactor Needs an Oracle: Characterization Tests vs. AI Diffs

#refactoring #testing #ai #productivity

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Dakota Huang

Sep 1

Your Refactor Is a Guess Until You Diff the Public Surface

#testing #refactoring #webdev #devops

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4 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 31

You Drafted the Patch. Now Prove It Changed Nothing.

#testing #ai #refactoring #legacycode

6 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 31

Audit AI-Generated Characterization Tests Before You Refactor

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4 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 31

Your Clean Diff May Lie: Capture Behavior Before You Approve

#testing #refactoring #ai #productivity

5 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 31

Differential Characterization: The Only Refactor Safety Net for Messy JSON Normalizers

#refactor #testing #python #webdev

3 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 31

Free AI Tokens and a Free Server Are Enough for a Refactor Safety Net

#refactoring #testing #ai #devops

3 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 31

Smoke Tests Should Run Themselves: A Free Model and Free Server Workflow

#testing #automation #devops #productivity

5 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 31

The Smallest Safe Refactor: Lock Behavior, Then Change One Thing

#refactoring #testing #ai #workflow

4 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 31

One Function, One Test, One Commit: The Smallest Safe Refactor

#refactoring #testing #ai #javascript

3 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 31

The Smallest Safe Change: A Characterization-First Workflow for Messy Repos

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4 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 30

From Characterization Tests to Minimal Safe Refactors: A Free-Resource Workflow

#testing #refactoring #python #ai

3 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 30

Characterize, Minify, Refactor: A Safe Path Through a Messy Codebase

#refactoring #testing #python #legacy

4 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 30

You're the Reviewer Now. Who Reviews Your Verdict?

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3 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 30

The Smallest Safe Change: Capture Behavior, Refactor, Ship

#testing #refactoring #python #productivity

4 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 30

Characterization Tests Need a Home: Run Them on a Free Server

#testing #refactoring #python #devops

3 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 30

Real API Traffic Is Your Missing Test Data: A Free-Server Capture Workflow

#testing #api #node #ai

6 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 30

Your AI Refactor Looks Right: Verify It With a Behavior Fingerprint

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4 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 30

Characterization-First Refactoring: Lock the Mess, Then Fix It

#refactoring #testing #javascript #ai

4 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 29

Diff the AI's Test Draft Before You Adopt It

#testing #refactoring #ai #python

5 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 29

The AI Wrote the Diff. The Tests Wrote the Verdict.

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4 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 29

A Refactor Without a Baseline Is a Trust Fall

#testing #refactoring #ai #programming

3 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 29

The Change Budget: A Decision Table for Messy Repo Refactors

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4 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 29

Differential Testing Is the Proof Your Extraction Is Missing

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5 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 29

The Golden-File Refactor Loop: Record, Verify, Move, Commit

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5 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 29

A Golden File Is Not a Test: The Byte-Level Refactor Safety Net

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5 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 28

The Move-Only Contract: A Three-Step Refactor for a Messy Module

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5 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 28

Freeze First, Refactor Second: Snapshotting a Messy Order Function

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5 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 28

The Smallest Safe Change: Characterize the Mess, Then Extract the Seam

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4 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 28

The Diff Budget: Four Checks Before Merging an AI-Generated Refactor

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4 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 28

A Refactor Is Two Commits: Lock the Behavior, Then Edit the Body

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4 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 28

The Reviewer Is the Untested Component: A Three-Layer Gate for AI Refactors

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5 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 28

Fan-In Is the Refactor Safety Signal You're Ignoring

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Dakota Huang

Aug 27

Characterize Before You Review: A 30-Minute Loop for AI Patches

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5 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 27

Intentional Drift: Updating Characterization Tests When the Refactor Fixes a Bug

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4 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 27

The Refactor Ledger: Make Every Small Change Prove Itself

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4 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 27

Don't Characterize the Whole Messy Repo: Triage Files by Churn, Complexity, and Risk First

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4 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 27

The Fault That Breaks the Fewest Tests Is Your First Extraction

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5 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 27

The Behavior Fingerprint: One Command That Gates Every Legacy Refactor

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4 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 27

Dead Probes Pass: Mutation-Check Your Characterization Tests Before You Refactor

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5 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 27

The Smallest Safe Change Is a Measured Property

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5 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 26

Golden Master First: Let a Free Model Draft the Probes, Then Refactor Small

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4 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 26

One Change, One Verify: Snapshot-Driven Refactoring for Legacy Code

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4 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 26

A Characterization Suite That Never Caught a Bug Won't Protect Your Refactor

#testing #refactoring #ai #legacy

3 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 26

Set a Diff Budget Before You Let AI Refactor Your Messy Repo

#ai #testing #git #python

4 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 26

Characterize First, Refactor Second: A Safe Workflow for Messy Repos

#refactoring #testing #ai #python

4 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 26

Measure Every Token: A SQLite-Backed Call Tracker for Free Model Endpoints

#ai #python #tutorial #devops

4 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 25

Log the Decision, Not Just the Response

#ai #python #sqlite #tutorial

5 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 25

Seed a Bug, Score the Review: A Contract Test for AI Code Reviewers

#ai #testing #tutorial #python

4 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 25

Five Probes to Check Whether Your Free Model Endpoint Leaks or Obeys Strangers

#ai #security #tutorial #webdev

4 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 25

Inject Five Failures Before You Trust a Free Model Endpoint

#ai #python #testing #tutorial

5 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 25

A Retry Is a Duplicate Waiting to Happen: Idempotency for Free Model Endpoints

#ai #tutorial #node #api

6 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 24

When Retries Make It Worse: Build a Circuit Breaker for Free Model Endpoints

#ai #javascript #tutorial #llm

5 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 24

Your Model Call Is a Job, Not a Request: An Outbox Queue for Free Endpoints

#node #sqlite #ai #tutorial

4 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 24

Snapshot Your Prompts: A Golden-File Test for Free Model Endpoints

#ai #tutorial #testing #llm

5 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 24

Prompts Are Code: A Golden Test Gate for Free Model Endpoints

#ai #tutorial #testing #python

6 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 23

A 429 Is a Signal, Not a Suggestion: Build a Retry Ladder for Free Endpoints

#ai #python #tutorial #api

6 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 23

A/B Test Prompts Without a Feature Flag: A Free-Server Workflow

#tutorial #ai #webdev #llm

3 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 23

Quota Forensics: A Token Ledger for Free Model Endpoints

#ai #python #tutorial #api

4 min read

Dakota Huang

Aug 23

Real Traffic Is the Only Benchmark: Replay Requests Before You Swap Models

#ai #llm #tutorial #node

5 min read

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