Comment by perrygeo

This. Historically there's been a lot of resistance to the idea of refactoring or refining features. The classic "It works, just ship it" mentality that leaves mountains of tech debt in its wake.

And there _was_ a good reason to resist refactoring. It takes time and effort! After "finishing" something, the timeline, the mental and physical energy, the institutional support, is all dried up. Just ship it and move on.

But LLMs change the equation. There's no reason to leave sloppy sub-optimal code around. If you see something, say something. Wholesale refactoring your PR is likely faster than running your test suite. Literally no excuses for bad code anymore.

You'd think it didn't need to be said but, given we have a tool to make coding vastly more efficient, some people use that tool to improve quality rather than just pump out more quantity.