April 24, 2024, 7:11 p.m. | Attila Fejér

DEV Community dev.to

Previously in the series, we saw that AI tools have limitations. We also

discussed maximizing our productivity by using them to write code - without

shooting ourselves in our legs.


In this post, we'll cover one more piece of the puzzle: how they can (or can't)

help us to refactor.


This post was heavily influenced by thoughtworks' excellent podcast episode

Refactoring with AI.





The Goal of Refactoring


If we want to boil it down, refactoring has a simple goal: …

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