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Agents Refactor 300K Lines in Three Weeks, and Practitioners Ask What it Proves
InfoQ (AI, ML & Data)
Read the full articleCodeScene used AI agents to refactor a 300,000-line C codebase of Street Fighter III in three weeks, improving its Code Health score from 5.6 to 10.0 with nearly 3,000 commits. The agents developed a refactoring playbook of 22 recipes tailored to the codebase, using Claude Opus model for most tasks. The project demonstrated superhuman AI performance at scale, though industry reactions vary on its implications.
