Claude Code & Cursor in Production: Scale Refactoring and Testing

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Introduction & Industry Context As we navigate the software development landscape of late 2026, the velocity of building software has reached unprecedented heights. For solopreneurs, bootstrapped SaaS founders, and nimble software development agencies, the barrier to launching a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) has practically evaporated. What used to take a team of senior engineers six months to build is now regularly shipped by a single developer in 14 days or less. However, this blistering pace of early-stage creation has introduced a severe technical bottleneck: the rapid accumulation of raw,

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