Didn’t he invent refactoring? Something that every developer in the world uses every day? Don’t think he’s a bullshitter.

No he did not. For some reason people think he did.

See following article where he talks about the inventors of refactoring: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/EtymologyOfRefactoring.html?u...

	▲	dave_sid 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		What do you mean some reason? He wrote the book Refactoring that caused everyone to start refactoring. That’s quite a big reason. He literally wrote the book on it.