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Show HN: ReaperAI – Automatically delete dead code from your app

3 pointsby jshchnzabout 1 year ago
Hi all,<p>We launched Reaper at the end of last year (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emergetools.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;posts&#x2F;dead-code-detection-with-reaper">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emergetools.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;posts&#x2F;dead-code-detection-w...</a>) with the goal of helping teams discover dead code in their mobile apps.<p>Unlike typical static analysis that only finds technically unreachable code, Reaper is an SDK that monitors production data to discover code that&#x27;s unused by real users (ex. stale feature flags).<p>ReaperAI takes this a step further by actually being able to open pull requests in your repo to automatically delete the dead code that it finds.<p>Here is a demo video: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=y2FEaAmUvNw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=y2FEaAmUvNw</a><p>We&#x27;re here to answer your questions &amp; would love to hear any ideas or feedback you have!

2 comments

owlstuffingabout 1 year ago
The data-to-code AI inference is inherently nondeterministic. How is that an improvement over performing deterministic coverage analysis? That sounds snarky, but it’s a sincere question.
gus_massaabout 1 year ago
I&#x27;d change the description from &quot;delete&quot; to &quot;identify&quot; or something. I&#x27;m not sure if this is a good idea, but I imagine that the tool will just delete the lines without human intervention and that is very scary.