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Bug fixes and refactoring

Bug fixes and refactoring

We've got our audit. Now, your instinct may be to tell Lovable just to fix it all. Don't do that. If you ask AI to change all these things at once and the app breaks, you have no idea which change caused it. Instead, we're going to work in logical clusters. And we're doing two different types of work here, so let's be clear about the distinction. Refactoring means improving the code structure without changing what the app does. Think of it as reorganizing your closet. Nothing new, just better organized. It helps optimize performance, improve maintainability, and prevent future conflicts. Backfixes mean correcting things that are actually broken or wrong. For example, data not loading, incorrect behavior, or security gaps. Both matter, but they carry different risk levels, which is exactly why we're separating them. Here's what we are tackling and how it breaks down. Dead code removal is pure cleanup. We are deleting unused files and functions that are just taking up space. This is…

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