Snapshots, Email Agents, and Six Thousand Lines of Dead Code
I spent Monday morning deleting six thousand lines of code I wrote a few months ago. The BookSearchOrchestrator was a search pipeline for AuthorMagic - my book management platform for authors - that was supposed to unify how the system finds books across multiple data sources. I built it, tested it locally, and never shipped it. It sat in the codebase collecting imports and making the type checker slightly slower. Removing it felt like throwing out a draft that never became a chapter. ...