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The Economic Benefit of Refactoring
How refactoring a 17,155-line Rust file reduced AI token costs.
About The Economic Benefit of Refactoring
A Thoughtworks experiment refactors a 17,155-line Rust data-access file into 19 files and measures the token cost of implementing the same change after each step. The results show lower AI input-token consumption as the codebase becomes easier for agents to navigate.
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