alt Hacker NewsRefactoring is a very mechanistic way of turning bad code into good. I don’t see a world in which our tools (LLMs or otherwise) don’t learn this.
Refactoring is a very mechanistic way of turning bad code into good. I don’t see a world in which our tools (LLMs or otherwise) don’t learn this.
Refactorings can be useful in certain cases if the core architecture of the system is sound, but for some very complex systems, the problems can run deeper and a refactoring can be a waste of time. Sometimes you're better off reworking the whole thing because the problem might be in the foundation itself; something about the architecture forces developer's hand in terms of thinking about the problem incorrectly and writing bad code on top.