> now you have to be careful how and when you use the term "refactor" because the people who ought to be supportive hear "wasting time". Programmers had a hand

> now you have to be careful how and when you use the term "refactor" because the people who ought to be supportive hear "wasting time". Programmers had a hand in this, sadly: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/RefactoringMalapropism.html https://martinfowler.com/bliki/RefactoringMalapropism.html Nowadays people throw the term "refactoring" around quite loosely, usually meaning "rewrite" when that was not at all the original meaning of the term! A little bit like how "vibe coding" quickly went from one definition to another even though people should have known better.