On: That coworker who never stops refactoring

[jariel]

"Doesn’t it seem powerful, to have a person on your team completely dedicated to helping other developers be as productive as they can be? "

Fred may be helping, he may be helping in an inefficient way, he may be doing 'make work', he may be screwing things up.

It depends more on the materiality of the outcome, not the motivation of the effort.