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I've never met a single developer saying refactors are easy. It's always a minefield. In the only scenario where that could actually be true you wouldn't have

• SoftTalker 15d ago
  If you were fortunate enough to be working in a project with very good test coverage, refactors were easier (maybe not easy) in the sense that you were at least fairly confident that nothing broke. But I've personally never worked on code with test coverage that good. Refactors were always risky.
• rafaelRiv 9d ago
  > In the only scenario where that could actually be true you wouldn't have coworkers creating unmaintainable code with LLMs now. 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.