I Built an AI-Powered Dead Code Detector for VS Code (and It Goes Way Beyond Unused Imports)

We've all been there. You're reading through a codebase and you spot it — a feature flag that's been set to false for two years, a function exported from a module that nothing ever imports, a block of logic sitting underneath a return statement that will never, ever run. ESLint catches unused variables. TypeScript catches type mismatches. But dead business logic ? That's a different beast — and that's what I built this extension to hunt. What Is "Dead Code" Really? Most linters think dead code =