In the past I have performed needed refactorings as part of new feature development, without asking permissions. Even though my boss at the time said “don’t ma

In the past I have performed needed refactorings as part of new feature development, without asking permissions. Even though my boss at the time said “don’t make it pretty, just make it work.” Of course, I knew that writing the code the “pretty”, more maintainable, easier to understand way wouldn’t take any longer to write, and might take less time as the refactoring requires less new code overall. But I didn’t bother explaining all that. Just nodded then went and implemented it the best way as I was the experienced software engineer.