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by adverbly 1588 days ago
Not sure I agree with the theme of this take. Technical debt can be significant and take months to address on a large codebase. This take also places a lot of blame on the devs who have to work on tech debt, where in reality, it's often another dev who wrote the original code(usually several years ago, and no longer at the company). Things are more complicated than "just deal with it and hide it under a rug".
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lolinder 1588 days ago
> Technical debt can be significant and take months to address on a large codebase.

I think the premise is that if you've got months of technical debt built up, you've already screwed up. If you (and everyone else on your team) refuse to ever take shortcuts, you'll end up debt free.

If you're already in a situation where you have mounds of debt, yes, you can't just increase your estimate for current tasks.

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selfhoster11 1588 days ago
"If only everyone" is a version of the Prisoner's Dilemma. I don't think we've got that one figured out yet.

Besides, if your working style overly focuses on proper engineering while other things are on fire, the company could die.

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