New-age (or whatever) way to indicate you're rewriting someone's code. Maybe it's intended to sound less pejorative, but it's usually a
smokescreen for rewriting someone's code under the guise of using unspecified, and therefore unassailable, "
refactoring rules" of which
only you are knowledgable.
1) Bill's "
refactoring" Jane's code again. He
think's he's a better programmer, but he's just a misogynist
shitheel. Frankie should fire his raggedy ass.
2) When I change your code, I'm refactoring it. When you change my code, you're just fucking with it.