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Had me in the first part
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this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2026
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If it's adding that many lines, it's not refactoring. It's just adding slop.
The best refactors always remove more lines than they add. This is a horrifying ratio if no new features were included.
Strange, I always add lines to make it more cohesive, SoC, DRY, and generalized so it is easily extensible.
In a ratio of 60:1 lines added:removed?
No, of course, what OP posted is absolute hot garbage.
It's like "fuck this codebase, we delete everything and start over".
I would think that modularizing a big block of code would have to add more lines, would it not?
Okay, but also remove more I guess.
The overall LoC might still be up, but not at this ratio
Yeah, adding that many lines does not sound like a cleanup to me. Unless it's mostly adding unit tests.