<ul><li>The ability to confidently delete code is an underappreciated skill that separates great developers from good ones.</li><li>Legacy code, with all its assumptions, dependencies, and maintenance burden, needs to be strategically reduced.</li><li>Deleting unnecessary code improves maintainability, performance, and clarity of the codebase.</li><li>To delete code confidently, identify dead code, build a safety net, and delete in stages.</li></ul>

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