What stood out

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

Copy-paste repetition2/8 files · 32%
Near-duplicate blocks with small edits instead of a shared helper.
Boilerplate padding3/8 files · 27%
More lines, wrappers and ceremony than the job needs.
Assistant tells1/8 files · 4%
Emoji in logs, 'in a real application…', placeholder TODOs.

Lived-in code6/8 files · 51%
Idiosyncrasies and quirks of code that evolved over time.
Pragmatic shortcuts7/8 files · 43%
Terse idioms and deliberate omissions an experienced author takes.
Domain-specific naming6/8 files · 42%
Names that show deep familiarity with the problem.
Comments explain why1/8 files · 12%
Comments about trade-offs, gotchas, bugs and workarounds.

Files we looked at

The files behind the score, sloppiest first.

examples/view-locals/user.js36out of 100
JavaScript · 730 B
- Boilerplate padding 41%
- Assistant tells 37%
test/acceptance/web-service.js31out of 100
JavaScript · 3.1 KB
- Copy-paste repetition 71%
test/Route.js9out of 100
JavaScript · 6.3 KB
- Copy-paste repetition 36%
lib/view.js6out of 100
JavaScript · 3.7 KB
- Boilerplate padding 31%
lib/express.js3out of 100
JavaScript · 1.6 KB
- Boilerplate padding 32%
lib/response.js0out of 100
JavaScript · 25 KB
lib/application.js0out of 100
JavaScript · 14 KB
lib/request.js0out of 100
JavaScript · 12 KB

Scanned Oct 25, 2026 from master. A playful gut check, not a verdict on the people behind the code. How scoring works. More recent reports.