The document discusses improving an app's code by refactoring repetitive code into a reusable function. It provides an example of creating a "calculate" function that takes mathematical operation strings as parameters and performs the calculation on two variables, returning and displaying the result. This cleans up the code by removing repetitive calculation logic from button click handlers, instead calling the calculate function and passing the operation. It notes the goal is to decrease complexity, increase readability and reusability by extracting duplicative code into functions.