simplify
Review changes in the current branch, or in the scope the user specifies. Apply these criteria without changing behavior. Only touch code in that scope, and run the relevant existing checks after changes.
Word choice in code and comments
Variable names, function names, and comments are all prose. Apply Orwell's rules ("Politics and the English Language") to each:
Never use a long word where a short one will do.
If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
Never use the passive where you can use the active.
Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
Latinate vocabulary (reconcile, coalesce, normalize, reconciliation) sounds technical and abstract; Anglo-Saxon words (prune, run, watch, stop, drop, walk) are short and physical. Prefer the Saxon word.