What stood out

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

Boilerplate padding4/8 files · 30%
More lines, wrappers and ceremony than the job needs.
Copy-paste repetition2/8 files · 23%
Near-duplicate blocks with small edits instead of a shared helper.

Domain-specific naming6/8 files · 50%
Names that show deep familiarity with the problem.
Pragmatic shortcuts8/8 files · 44%
Terse idioms and deliberate omissions an experienced author takes.
Lived-in code2/8 files · 26%
Idiosyncrasies and quirks of code that evolved over time.
Comments explain why1/8 files · 18%
Comments about trade-offs, gotchas, bugs and workarounds.

Files we looked at

The files behind the score, sloppiest first.

bot/bot.go36out of 100
Go · 2.3 KB
- Boilerplate padding 35%
modem/signal.go31out of 100
Go · 3.0 KB
- Copy-paste repetition 44%
- Boilerplate padding 33%
modem/sms_test.go26out of 100
Go · 3.0 KB
- Boilerplate padding 39%
mqttclient/client.go24out of 100
Go · 3.8 KB
- Copy-paste repetition 40%
scripts/release-notes.sh19out of 100
Shell · 1.2 KB
- Boilerplate padding 32%
main.go18out of 100
Go · 5.6 KB
modem/modem.go12out of 100
Go · 3.1 KB
modem/pdu.go4out of 100
Go · 11 KB

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.