I'm 16, and I Built an AI Tool That Audits Your Technical Debt Without Ever Touching code

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How a student developer built a provider-agnostic, sandbox-safe CLI tool that scans repos for technical debt, AI-refactors messy files, and visualizes it all in a local dark-mode dashboard. I want to tell you about the moment I realized I was scared to show senior developers my code. I'd built something I was genuinely proud of. A real tool. A CLI that scans your repository, calculates how much technical debt is buried in it, uses AI to refactor the worst files, and then generates a dark-mode HTML dashboard right on your machine - no server, no account, no data leaving your computer.