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Countercounterpoint: I doubt that AI will do as well in refactoring as me. I refactor religiously. I hate code that is subpar, so I'll refactor and refactor. I
by gavinhoward 4y ago
Countercounterpoint: I doubt that AI will do as well in refactoring as me.
I refactor religiously. I hate code that is subpar, so I'll refactor and refactor. In my current project, I have 180 commits that mention refactoring in the log message, and some of those are huge redesign commits. And I haven't even released it yet!
- asdfman123 4y agoI would do that if I could, but at my brand name tech company (and a lot of others) they seem to treat refactoring as completely wasted time.
- gavinhoward 4y agoThat sucks. I'm sorry.
- asdfman123 4y agoI manage to slip it in out of principle, but my whole career I've been cleaning up other people's messes and getting pushback. I think the original "10x engineer" study showed that engineers that wrote clean code maximize everyone else's productivity. (It's debatable, but certainly a good argument in favor of writing good code.) But most people seem to think that the most productive engineers are the ones who can create features as rapidly as possible.