Johnny Butler

March 10, 2026

One of the quickest “AI productivity” wins in a monolith isn’t another model.

It’s less noise, In the AI era, context is cost.

I’m doing a sweep to remove dead repo assets (old CSVs/exports/screenshots/sample data) and trimming logs (lower verbosity + sensible rotation/cleanup).

Why? Because in big codebases, context is cost:

navigation/search gets harder
agents pull in irrelevant files
token/context burn goes up
small changes stop being “small”

So I’m treating repo hygiene + log hygiene as part of the “software factory” workflow:
keep the working set tight → keep tasks cheap → keep feedback loops fast