What stood out

How strongly each pattern showed up overall, and in how many of the files.

Copy-paste repetition3/8 files · 28%
Near-duplicate blocks with small edits instead of a shared helper.
Boilerplate padding1/8 files · 24%
More lines, wrappers and ceremony than the job needs.
Assistant tells1/8 files · 15%
Emoji in logs, 'in a real application…', placeholder TODOs.

Domain-specific naming8/8 files · 60%
Names that show deep familiarity with the problem.
Pragmatic shortcuts7/8 files · 37%
Terse idioms and deliberate omissions an experienced author takes.
Lived-in code4/8 files · 37%
Idiosyncrasies and quirks of code that evolved over time.
Comments explain why4/8 files · 33%
Comments about trade-offs, gotchas, bugs and workarounds.

Files we looked at

The files behind the score, sloppiest first.

pkg/gui/focus.go29out of 100
Go · 4.6 KB
- Assistant tells 85%
pkg/gui/presentation/stacks.go23out of 100
Go · 2.5 KB
- Boilerplate padding 33%
pkg/gui/keybindings.go17out of 100
Go · 31 KB
pkg/gui/image_update_apply.go15out of 100
Go · 4.6 KB
pkg/commands/incustest/server.go10out of 100
Go · 18 KB
- Copy-paste repetition 36%
pkg/commands/incus.go8out of 100
Go · 21 KB
- Copy-paste repetition 30%
pkg/commands/instance_compose.go5out of 100
Go · 3.9 KB
pkg/commands/instance.go3out of 100
Go · 18 KB
- Copy-paste repetition 35%

Scanned Oct 30, 2026 from master. A playful gut check, not a verdict on the people behind the code. How scoring works. More recent reports.