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Fascinating! I spent the past two days at a software conference in the Barbican. (The SDD conf). The place is truly beautiful in a brutalistic way. Had lunch in the greenhouse.

Agree -- maintainable code was always important, but even more so in the age of AI. Unless we introduce proper guardrails via reliable code quality metrics, all these AI assistants…

> our research significance is currently limited in that it does not directly measure what code was AI-authored There is actual AI benchmarking data in the Refactoring vs Refuctori…

> 8. Your Code as a Crime Scene (Finding problems in the code using code history) There's a brand new 2nd edition on its way: https://pragprog.com/titles/atcrime2/your-code-as-a-cr…

There are two books which I keep coming back to learn from: * Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs: SICP changed the way I view programming. It's an excellent intro to…

I'm not John, but I'm one of the authors of the research paper. Indeed, one goal with this work is to complement DORA’s delivery metrics with similar correlations between code qual…

This is indeed something that the academic research paper (see https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.04374 ) identifies as Future Work. There could be a code familiarity component that explai…

Yes, this empowers development teams to have data-driven tech debt conversations with management. I wish that I had this type of data myself back in the day. Would have been so muc…

Yes, cyclomatic complexity might be a popular metric but it was never a good one. At least not for its original purpose. That said, I occasionally find cyclomatic complexity useful…

I started to code 35 years ago on a Commodore 64. The beauty of those machines was that you literally had to write code to even load a game (LOAD, RUN, etc.). As such, the barriers…

That's a great visual presentation, but not really an innovation. The CodeScene tool has that built in together with a set of deep analyses on top (see https://codescene.com/ ). Th…

Fully agree! That's why I recommend to monitor the code health trends continuously -- the earlier we can catch any potential issues, the better: https://codescene.io/projects/167/j…

Yes, there's an on-prem version of CodeScene that can be run on private servers. The latest release is described here: https://codescene.com/blog/architectural-analyses-simplified.…

CodeScene isn't built on the open source tool. CodeScene's engine is implemented from scratch in order to deal with large-scale codebases. The basic metrics are the same, but CodeS…

Cool - thanks! While the measures a simple in theory, there are some practical challenges; git repositories tend to be messy. So part of the practical challenge is to clean the inp…

A large codebase under active development presents a moving target; Even if you knew how something worked last week, that code might have changed twice since then. Detailed knowled…