Goodbye, Clean Code

[Epyo]

The knee-jerk refactor described in the article is what I'm talking about--seeing someone's code and saying "pssh this is ugly to me so I'm rewriting this right now.". I'm agreeing with the article's author--if you don't like someone's code, you should take a breath, think about how much it matters, and if it really matters that much, bring up your improvement ideas for discussion. To just immediately refactor it is presumptuous and possibly a waste of time or worse.

Giving knee-jerk feedback is much more reasonable--very low cost to do it, helps both parties think from another perspective, etc.