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by pavel_lishin 3151 days ago
> It is a bigger problem than I know how to fix. We even have a similar static analysis tool on our code, but when there are thousands and thousands of existing issues pointed out by it no one really cares about adding a few more to the pile.

What about just making sure the pile doesn't grow bigger? Can you add something that warns you when your total percentage of erroneous/bad code goes up? This should help to prevent adding new bad code, and rewards refactoring old bad code.