In this episode, we discuss:
- What is ‘zombie code’, aka “dead code” (1:07)
- Why is zombie code hard to find? (3:00)
- Why can’t we just ignore zombie code? (4:45)
- How does zombie code accumulate? (7:16)
- Zombie code gets even more complex…(8:31)
- Is zombie code a security threat? (11:30)
- Can you find zombie code manually, or is AI needed? (14:09)
- What does it look like to manually search for zombie code? (17:11)
- Best practices to handling zombie code (21:30)
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