In any fast-growing software team, the pressures of delivery often come at the expense of code quality. As codebases expand and contributors change in experience, inconsistencies naturally begin to surface: formatting mess, increasing complexity, duplication, and subtle design flaws. Over time, these small cracks lead to fragile systems and increasing maintenance costs.
To counter this, many engineering teams rely on few tools integrated into their development workflow. These tools are used to work on some repeated churns, but they sometimes have an outsized impact.