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The Economic Benefit of Refactoring

The Economic Benefit of Refactoring

How refactoring a 17,155-line Rust file reduced AI token costs.

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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