Refactoring was never a substantial amounts of time for me before llms. Before I could spot a potential refactor and refactor it in 20 minutes and less. Never abandon it. Just constant improvement to the point the previous tech startup that I was working for just drive from itself (I am still paid a a few hours per months for it)
In the only scenario where that could actually be true you wouldn't have coworkers creating unmaintainable code with LLMs now.
But I've personally never worked on code with test coverage that good. Refactors were always risky.
Bingo. My highly qualified team was disbanded because the company went bankrupt. Apparently, the CEO had embezzled a large sum of money. That team was disbanded just before LLMs caught up.
The one that create unmaintainable code is a new team and the reason they are able to create such a large amount of unmaintainable code is because of llms.
> I've never met a single developer saying refactors are easy. It's always a minefield.
Pleasure to meet to you. You now know one. In the land of functional programming, refactoring is quite enjoyable and quite easy.