What stood out

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

Boilerplate padding2/8 files · 23%
More lines, wrappers and ceremony than the job needs.
Unused or phantom imports1/8 files · 22%
Imports that are never used, or calls to APIs that don't seem to exist.
Defensive everything1/8 files · 9%
Blanket try/catch, log-and-rethrow, impossible null checks.

Domain-specific naming8/8 files · 64%
Names that show deep familiarity with the problem.
Comments explain why5/8 files · 51%
Comments about trade-offs, gotchas, bugs and workarounds.
Pragmatic shortcuts8/8 files · 44%
Terse idioms and deliberate omissions an experienced author takes.
Lived-in code6/8 files · 41%
Idiosyncrasies and quirks of code that evolved over time.

Files we looked at

The files behind the score, sloppiest first.

Scanned Nov 1, 2026 from main. A playful gut check, not a verdict on the people behind the code. How scoring works. More recent reports.