AI-assisted refactoring without losing product intent Refactoring is not only a code-cleanliness exercise. In frontend engineering, refactoring can change how people experience a product: how quickly a screen becomes useful, how a form explains failure, how a loading state reduces uncertainty, and how accessible the interface remains when something unexpected happens. That is why AI-assisted refactoring needs more than a prompt that says “make this cleaner”. Cleaner code is useful, but not if the new version silently removes product intent. A component usually contains more context than its syntax shows. Some of that context is obvious: props, state, validation, API calls, and rendering branches. Some of it is hidden in the history of the product: a condition added because real users got confused, a loading state added because a financial action felt risky, an error message added because support saw the same issue repeatedly.…