Use Guardrails for AI-Assisted Coding
AI-assisted coding is still in its early stages. This article explores the immediate and future impacts of integrating AI...
Adam Tornhill is a programmer who combines degrees in engineering and psychology. He’s the founder and CTO of CodeScene where he designs tools for code analysis. Adam is also a recognized international speaker and the author of multiple technical books, including the best selling Your Code as a Crime Scene and Software Design X-Rays. Adam’s other interests include modern history, music, retro computing, and martial arts.
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Deep dives into code quality, architecture, and cutting-edge development strategies.6X improvement over SonarQube - Raising the Maintainability bar
CodeScene surpasses SonarQube by 6 times on the public software maintainability dataset, scoring 83% vs. SonarQube's 13.3% using...
From Tech Debt to Triumph: How Refactoring Speeds Development by 43%
In this article, we’ll use a statistical model that translates Code Health scores into tangible business value – faster...
CodeScene Receives Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Technical Debt
CodeScene awarded Best Paper at the 7th International Conference on Technical Debt 2024 for groundbreaking insights in the field...
Managing technical debt: measure the impact and prioritize improvements guided by development data
Manage technical debt by prioritizing code health issues based on development impact. Get a clear priorities list and visualize...
The Bumpy Road Code Smell: Measuring Code Complexity by its Shape and Distribution (Clone)
Cyclomatic complexity counts the number of logical paths through a function. The Bumpy Road Code Complexity pattern is a function...
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The Bumpy Road Code Smell: Measuring Code Complexity by its Shape and Distribution (Clone)
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Architectural Analysis Simplified and growing Programming Language support
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Change coupling: visualize the cost of change
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Code Health Trends Reworked
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Visualize team-code alignment: reverse engineer your organization from version-control
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Visualize the impact of (automated) code reviews
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Visualize Microservice Dependencies in a Team Context
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Use CodeScene's CI/CD Quality Gates to Manage Technical Debt with Positive Reinforcement
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Under the Hood: Prioritizing Technical Debt in React
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The technical interview rethought: an approach to evaluate communication and code comprehension
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The Day I Parsed A Monster
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Tech Debt - prioritize technical debt with CodeScene
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Minimize On- and Off-Boarding Risks
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Migrating from TFS to Git: How to Run CodeScene on TFS Projects
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Meet the Branch Measures: Behavioral Code Analysis Predicts Delivery Risks
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How to Manage Technical Debt with Auto-Supervised Goals
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Feature Toggles are Technical Debt, but still great
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Early Warnings for Future Maintenance Problems
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CodeScene's IDE Extension brings CodeHealth™ Analysis directly into your editor
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CodeScene SaaS with BitBucket Hosting
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CodeScene in your Continuous Integration Pipeline
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Announcing Code Health support for the Rust Programming Language
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Announcement: Code Health Metrics for the BrightScript Language
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Analyse Pair and Mob Programming Patterns
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AI Coding Assistants: Introducing CodeScene AI Generated Code Refactoring
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A Project Management Software that Understands Code
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- A performance optimization workflow - Clojure Tutorials
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CodeScene Momentum Leader in G2 Summer 2025 Reports
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New Codility–CodeScene Partnership Brings CodeHealth™ into Technical Assessments
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Explore CodeScene's New Code Coverage Feature
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Use Guardrails for AI-Assisted Coding
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AI vs. Code Maintainability: Extending Cursor with Automated Code Reviews
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Your Team’s Automated Defense Against Technical Debt
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From Tech Debt to Triumph: How Refactoring Speeds Development by 43%
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CodeScene Now Available on AWS Marketplace
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Conflux and CodeScene Announce Strategic Partnership
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Wouldn’t It Be Great If You Could Automatically Pay Down Technical Debt Using AI?
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Use Guardrails for AI-Assisted Coding
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CodeScene is a proud partner of Lund University and Vinnova's NextG2Com Competence Center
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University of Antwerp uses CodeScene in Re-engineering Course
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CodeScene helps identify technical risk and prioritize actions to mitigate it
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Ework Group uses CodeScene to Navigate Challenges of Distributed Software Development
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Luminare prevents developer burnout and improved code quality
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CodeScene Receives Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Technical Debt
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What is technical debt? Let's explore!
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CodeScene Named Spring 2024 High Performer by G2
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6X improvement over SonarQube - Raising the Maintainability bar
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CodeScene is a proud sponsor of Pink Programming
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Introducing CodeScene's new CLI Tool
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Visualize Conway's Law in your Codebase
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Lydia Nicoll enters as CodeScene's new Chief Marketing Officer
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CodeScene Raises €7.5 Million in a Financing Round
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Code Quality: Debunking the Speed vs Quality Myth with Empirical Data
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Reduce Technical Debt: Strategies to Safeguard Your Organization from its Debilitating Impact
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Adam Tornhill, Founder of CodeScene joins Forbes Technology Council
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We've recruited Markus Borg as Principal Researcher to lead company’s research efforts
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What can software developers learn from offender profiling?
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Code quality: measuring the business impact of unhealthy code
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How CodeScene Differs From Traditional Code Analysis Tools
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ISO/IEC 27001 accredited - Your code is safe with us!
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CodeScene one of the 50 finalists in Techarenan Challenge 2021
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Meet the three Code Health KPIs: a unique profile of each codebase
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Techarenan names CodeScene as a Nordic rising star
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Managing technical debt: measure the impact and prioritize improvements guided by development data
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Predicting Security Vulnerabilities with Behavioral Code Analysis
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Evaluate Code Quality at Scale
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Interview with Edward Cattermole, CFO Codescene
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Interview with Stephen Marikkar, Customer Success Manager Codescene
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Measure the Code Health of your Codebase: a continuous feedback loop for engineering decisions based on data
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Guide Refactoring by Data
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Measure Conway's Law with CodeScene
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Tech Debt Management: Communicate the Effects of Technical Improvements to Non-Technical Stakeholders
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CodeScene joins the GitHub Student Developer Pack
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How Healthy is Your Codebase? Introducing Code Health and Biomarkers for Software
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Predicting Code Quality Issues Before They Happen: A Minority Report for Code
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How Does CodeScene Compare To Static Code Analysis and SonarQube?
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Better than silver bullets: A milestone for behavioral code analysis
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Visualize Brooks's Law: When more people make a late software project later
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Managing Technical Debt With Augmented Code Analysis
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CodeScene: The First Three Years of a Bootstrapped Startup
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CodeScene in Research
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Press Release: the Swedish king Carl XVI Gustaf visits CodeScene
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The Cost of Code: Bridging the Gap between Tech and Business
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Software (r)Evolution (Part 4)
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Software (r)Evolution (Part 3)
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Software (r)Evolution (Part 2)
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Software (r)Evolution (Part 1)
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The Happy Marriage of Retrospectives and Software Evolution
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CodeScene in Research
Both books have the implied goal to take mainstream software development one step closer to the point where decisions are...
Press Release: the Swedish king Carl XVI Gustaf visits CodeScene
The Swedish king Carl XVI Gustaf visited our office to see a demo of the CodeScene tool.
The Cost of Code: Bridging the Gap between Tech and Business
Use data to motivate investments in software quality. Measure your Software Cost Metrics and visualize how development activity...
Software (r)Evolution (Part 4)
In this article we'll explore how software evolution helps us make sense of large codebases.
Software (r)Evolution (Part 3)
You'll see how Temporal Coupling helps us design better software as we uncover expensive change patterns in our code.
Software (r)Evolution (Part 2)
Reason about architectural problems. Dig deep into your code. Get specific recommendations for refactoring and restructuring to...
Software (r)Evolution (Part 1)
Evolution is a series of articles that explore novel approaches to understanding and improving large-scale codebases.
The Happy Marriage of Retrospectives and Software Evolution
These days it's probably easier to find a winged unicorn than a software organization who hasn't adopted Agile.