How I use Claude Code to refactor legacy code — without breaking production

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# How I use Claude Code to refactor legacy code — without breaking production

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# [](https://dev.to/subprime2010/how-i-use-claude-code-to-refactor-legacy-code-without-breaking-production-5a9#how-i-use-claude-code-to-refactor-legacy-code-without-breaking-production) How I use Claude Code to refactor legacy code — without breaking production

Legacy code refactoring is one of the most dangerous operations in software engineering. One wrong move and you're rolling back a production depl
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