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by dstroot 2846 days ago
> How many hours per week do you estimate developers at your company waste on maintenance (i.e. dealing with bad code / errors, debugging, refactoring, modifying)?

The question above is mixing dealing with errors and debugging with refactoring and modifying. I think this is the heart of the issue. One can (and should) modify and refactor "good" code too.