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.
But before I posted it anywhere, I sat there thinking: "What if they look at my code and just laugh?"
I'm 16. This is my first production-grade project. And I shipped it anyway.
