Reviewing large-scale AI code changes is difficult, but a visual tool acting like a modern disassembler can help build trust and verify structural integrity.
An IntelliJ plugin provides a visual graph of code structure, allowing developers to quickly verify changes like a new Visitor pattern implementation.
Visualizing a complex legacy project reveals its "spider web" architecture, helping to identify and plan refactoring steps like moving classes between packages.
By identifying unwanted outgoing dependencies from an exception package, AI can be prompted to create factory methods that decouple it from domain logic.
A visual tool helps detect when an AI fails to complete a refactoring, such as leaving an old method as a wrapper instead of removing it.
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