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Identify Dangerous Side Effects · Reviewing AI-Written Code

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Identify Dangerous Side Effects

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A side effect is anything a function does that reaches outside itself, database writes, API calls, emails, state mutations. They're not bad by themselves, but AI loves to bury them inside helper functions where you don't expect them. A function called formatFeedback that also saves to the…

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