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[–] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works -2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

What counts as creating? How can one refine without creating?

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Well a light refactor of deduplicating code would be a refinement that is generally easy to review and likely comfortably in the capability of the codegen.

Versus creating, which generally is harder to review and requires the submitter to explain the rationale behind the change.

Volume of code and nature of change.

[–] trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

With "refine", I would guess they're talking about refining a task, so breaking it down into smaller, more concrete/actionable tasks.

Because that's usually meant in dev lingo, and because the other possible meaning of improving already-written code/docs is kind of already covered by "review".