Thanks, yes, refactoring. Please allow me to vent. First, I totally agree with you on Rule No. 1. I would never refactor legacy code or suggest a rewrite. It's

Thanks, yes, refactoring. Please allow me to vent. First, I totally agree with you on Rule No. 1. I would never refactor legacy code or suggest a rewrite. It's always a terrible idea. The downside is that I worry I might look like a ghost engineer. This is why I hate this industry sometimes. I heard about this paper at Stanford on ghost engineers a few weeks ago. Where LOC as their basis, it's just absurd. It went to the mainstream media as well, but looking at the paper, it has no metrics on the non-coding aspect of programming. It seems the industry hates the dev, like we should not be paid this high. Did execs make poor product choices? Let's fix this by increasing shareholder value by another round of layoffs. Which department? Engineering, we have metrics who does not provide enough value!