Marek Solecki

Has onboarded 40+ junior engineers over the past 6 years and writes a Substack on developer experience practices that have actually worked. Maintains a personal wiki on code review culture that gets cited occasionally on Hacker News.

2 articles by Marek Solecki.

• AI Codebase Understanding
• AI Dev Tools Reviews
• Code Review & Automation
• Developer Experience

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  AI Code Refactoring Tools: What Actually Works in 2026

  August 11, 2026

  AI refactoring tools speed up multi-file edits but 65% of devs hit context gaps first. Here is which tool category fits which task, and the workflow that keeps your test suite green.

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  Code Refactoring Techniques That Work in Real Codebases

  June 29, 2026

  Extract Method, branch-by-abstraction, strangler fig pattern: the refactoring techniques that reduce complexity in real codebases, measurable in hours not sentiment.