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Code Inventory

Code Inventory

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Unused and dead code remains in a codebase without being used, increasing maintenance effort and complicating understanding. Removing it reduces complexity, but developers often avoid doing so because identifying it is time‑consuming and risky, and errors can break the application. Traditional tools like IDEs lack visibility into real production usage, while profilers create too much overhead to run in live environments. As a result, unused code persists, raising cognitive load for developers and hindering onboarding and productivity.

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