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Vibe Coding Is Fun–But Vibe Refactoring Pays the Bills


So let’s flip the script to something that actually compounds: vibe refactoring. Same spontaneous energy, but aimed at shrinking technical debt and sharpening your architecture instead of amping up the commit count.

Same spontaneous energy, but aimed at shrinking technical debt and sharpening your architecture instead of amping up the commit count. Warnings and TODOs suddenly look less like background noise and more like neon signs that say “Fix me, champ.” Clear a few of those—you’ll feel lighter already. Run repomix(formerly repopack) This bundles context so large-language models can actually understand your project’s ecosystem instead of hallucinating a new service layer “for funsies.” Chat with an LLM Drop a knotty function into your favorite model and ask: “Any cleaner way to handle this?” or “Spot an N+1 query?” or “Got an indexing tip for this desperate JOIN?” It’s brutally honest rubber-duck debugging—and it never rolls its eyes.

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