In my last job we called that "optimizing", after a colleague (who usually only did frontent work) used the opportunity when everyone else was on vacation to implement a few show-stopping bugs in the backend and put "optimized backend code" in the commit message. He did the same thing a few months later during the next vacation period, which really solidified the joke.

[–] mattreb@feddit.it 19 points 1 day ago

that's exactly why we have mandatory code reviews now...

[–] bier@feddit.nl 45 points 1 day ago

Worked with a guy that would always say I'm refactoring X and it would usually give us weird issues and bugs. So after a while the team started calling it refucktoring