Vanity Engineering Review

This is a code review tool with a specific angle: it hunts for engineering decisions made to pad resumes or satisfy intellectual curiosity rather than solve actual user problems. Point it at a codebase, PR, or architecture doc and it scores what it calls the "requirement to complexity ratio," flags patterns like premature optimization and unnecessary abstraction, and estimates the ongoing maintenance cost of vanity decisions. The most useful output is probably the kill criteria framework, which forces teams to define upfront what would make a feature or system worth removing. Blunt and opinionated, but if you've ever inherited a microservice architecture built for 10 million users serving 500, you'll recognize what it's diagnosing.