Probably not “coolest” as in ‘best code ever’ or most complex code ever - but that got most coverage. So I think it’s pretty cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifJnWVSoyAY

Are there existing tools you love (or hate) that do something similar?

This sounds similar to “Static code analysis” tools. Especially now that these code analysis tools are getting AI integrations.

For example we use coderabbit.ai. That does a code review on PRs in github, and reviews these sort of things. Especially the simpler things that you’ve mentioned like poor naming conventions, violations of language-specific best practices, and readability issues. I’m not sure if it will automatically come up with “large refactoring opportunities” by default - but maybe you can custom-prompt configure it to try, I guess

(Comment) Why have a separate webpage if such of helper can be built into IDE/editor?

Coderabbit also has IDE extensions: https://www.coderabbit.ai/ide - I think the separate webpage exists for org level configurations and overviews. These “best practices” are probably defined on a team level to ensure everyone uses the same code-style and things like that

I’m not sure if “just a website to copypaste code and get reviews” is really a good idea. Maybe for juniors that want to review one class or method or something. But usually code is spread across multiple files, and structural refactor opportunities are on a larger scale then just a couple files

Reality Check #1 19/20

This thing messed me up:

They both looked like they could be AI - but to me it looks like that one has an AI artifact

instead of giving you the real IP, it points you to one of their proxy servers located in a country without the ID requirement.

Sounds a bit weird, if it’s just pure dns. Because if your dns server gives you a random proxy server instead, it sounds like this would break https right?