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Code Smell 313 – “Workslop” in AI-Assisted Programming

Code Smell 313 – “Workslop” in AI-Assisted Programming

Code Smell 312 – You Put Multiple Assertions in One Test, Making Failures Hard to Analyze

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Code Smell 08 – Send Messages Only to Your Direct Acquaintances, Not Their Friends

Code Smell 311 – Never Store or Compare Plain-text Passwords

Code Smell 07 – Avoid Boolean Variables

Refactoring 035 – Use Separate Exception Hierarchies for Business and Technical Errors

Code Smell 06 – Trying to Be a Clever Programmer

Code Smell 06 – Trying to Be a Clever Programmer

Refactoring 034 – Wrapping Messy Parameters Into a Single Meaningful Entity

Code Smell 310 – Why Generic Date Names Break Your Code

Code Smell 309 – Query Parameter API Versioning

Code Smell 05 – Comment Abusers

Refactoring 033 – Removing Redundant or Unused Annotations

Code Smell 04 – Stop Abusing Strings—Use Real Objects Instead

Refactoring 032 – Apply Consistent Style Rules

Code Smell 03: Functions Are Too Long – Here’s How to Fix That

Code Smell 308 – The Key to Safer, Cleaner, More Polymorphic Code

Refactoring 031 – Removing OOPs

Refactoring 030 – How to Avoid Accidental Redundancy

Replace AI References in Comments with Tests That Actually Work

Code Smell 303 – How to Prevent Breaking Existing Clients When You Make Changes

Code Smell 299 – How to Fix Overloaded Test Setups

Code Smell 298 – How to Fix Microsoft Windows Time Waste

Refactor Like a Pro: Ditch Hardcoded Inputs for Good

Bad Code Smells: The Silent Killers of Swift Elegance

Overusing Implicit Returns Makes Your Code Harder to Read and Debug

Refactoring 024 – Replace Global Variables with Dependency Injection

Code Smell 293 – You Should Avoid Adding isTesting or Similar Flags

Code Smell 292 – Missing Return

Code Smell 290 – Refused Bequest

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Code Smell 287 – Unused Local Assignment

Refactoring 022 – Extract Common Ancestor

Code Smell 286 – Parent-Child Method Overlaps

Refactoring 021 – Remove Dead Code

Code Smell 278 – DirName and File

Code Smell 278 — DirName and File

Refactoring 018 – How to Replace a Singleton

Code Smell 277 – UPPERCASE Acronyms

Code Smell 276 – Untested Regular Expressions

Refactoring 017 – Convert Attributes to Sets

Code Smell 273 – Overengineering

Code Smell 271 – The Hollywood Principle

Code Smell 269 – Low-Level Addition

Code Smell 268 – Ternary Metaprogramming

Code Smell 267 – Objects Aliasing

Code Smell 266 – Collection Aliasing

Code Smell 265 – Linguistic Confusion

Code Smell 264 – Hanlon’s Razor

Code Smell 262 – Not Replaced Constants

Code Smell 261 – DigiCert Underscores

Code Smell Explained…

Code Smell 206 — Long Ternaries

How to Spot Primitive Obsession Before It Becomes A Headache

Code Smell 184 — Exception Arrow Code

Code Smell 181 — Nested Classes

Code Smell 176 — Changes in Essence

Code Smell 174 — Broken Windows