Introducing Refactoring Advisor
AI Agent for Technical Debt
Your tests pass. Your code works. But is it maintainable? Now you'll know — before technical debt compounds.
You're shipping fast. Features are flying out the door. The product is growing. Everything seems fine — until it isn't.
Six months later, a simple feature that should take a day takes a week. New team members take months to onboard. Bugs appear in unexpected places. "How did this codebase become so hard to work with?"
You look at the code and realize:
Methods grew to 200+ lines — nobody noticed because each change was "just a few lines"
God Objects emerged — classes that do everything and are impossible to test
Deep nesting made logic unreadable — 6 levels of if-statements hiding bugs
SOLID principles were violated everywhere — tight coupling, no interfaces
This is technical debt. It doesn't crash your app. It doesn't fail tests. It just slowly makes everything harder — until refactoring becomes a months-long project instead of a normal part of development.
The Real Cost of Silent Code Smells
Code smells are uniquely dangerous because they're invisible in the moment. Unlike a bug or a failing test, a method that's "a bit too long" doesn't throw an error. It just silently slows everyone down.
Velocity Death Spiral
Each shortcut makes the next feature slower. Teams that ignore code smells ship 40% slower after 18 months. The compound effect is brutal.
Onboarding Nightmare
New developers can't understand the code. What should take a week to learn takes months. Tribal knowledge becomes the only way to navigate.
Merge Conflicts Everywhere
God Objects mean everyone touches the same files. Every PR conflicts with every other PR. Coordination overhead explodes.
Untestable Code
Tight coupling makes unit testing impossible. Integration tests become the only option — slow, flaky, and covering only happy paths.
"We have 500 line methods. We have classes with 40 dependencies.
Every feature now takes 3x longer than it should."
— Every team that shipped fast without reviews
What If Your CI/CD Caught Code Smells?
Imagine if every Pull Request was automatically checked for maintainability problems. Before merge. Before they compound. Before "quick fix" becomes "legacy nightmare".
That's exactly what Refactoring Advisor does.
Refactoring Advisor
A specialized AI agent dedicated entirely to code maintainability. It joins our existing team — Security, Performance, SEO, and more — to ensure your code stays clean as it grows.
Refactoring Advisor scans every PR for the patterns that lead to technical debt: long methods, deep nesting, SOLID violations, and design anti-patterns. You fix them in the PR, not during a painful rewrite.
See all capabilities and thresholdsWhy Teams Love Refactoring Advisor
Prevent, Don't Fix
Catch code smells in PRs when they're trivial to fix — not during a painful multi-sprint refactoring project.
Protect Velocity
Keep your codebase maintainable. Ship fast now without sacrificing speed later.
Objective Standards
No more "I think this is too long" debates. Clear thresholds everyone can follow.
The Core Insight
Technical debt accumulates invisibly, one "small exception" at a time. Refactoring Advisor makes the invisible visible — in every PR.
Who Should Use Refactoring Advisor?
Fast-growing startups
Where speed matters but you can't afford to slow down later
Teams scaling up
New developers need understandable code to contribute quickly
Long-lived codebases
Years of development need continuous quality enforcement
Anyone who's been through a painful rewrite
Never let "we need to rewrite everything" happen again
Start Catching Code Smells Today
Refactoring Advisor is available now for all diffray users. See exactly what it catches and how it works.