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I pointed the AI at my website for an hour. It deleted 73,657 lines.

A site owner pointed the AI at his site sublunar.space for an hour. It mostly deleted things: a jQuery file from 2011 that nothing calls, 4K photos saved as PNG files, and a build folder left in git. The cleanup cut 73,657 lines and about 23 MB of images.

How it works

  1. He points the AI at his site for an hour
  2. It finds code nothing calls and oversized images
  3. It deletes the dead files
  4. The total cut is 73,657 lines and about 23 MB of images

Why it’s worth knowing

The useful work was deletion. The agent made the site smaller instead of adding more code.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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