If the code is covered by comprehensive unit and regression tests, this refactoring is even easier. I have found that refactoring of unfamiliar complex code is much more difficult.

Without skilled developers supervising AI coding assistants, they are likely to break your code rather than write it. Right now, only people can fine-tune and evaluate AI.

Refactoring plays a critical role in maintaining a codebase that allows for rapid development, but it’s important to not to view this, and code quality, as an isolated process.

At Ignite 2019, Microsoft shared that Visual Studio IntelliCode now has whole-line code completions and features dynamic refactoring detection.