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by Groxx 1491 days ago
>If your TODO is forgotten, it's overwhelming likely that it wasn't very important.

Sometimes, but not always. We deleted the ones that were not, and finished the ones that were.

As far as noticing these by hand: my current project is about 600,000 lines of hand-written code, not including several libraries we also author and use in it, nor other projects I'm also heavily involved in. I haven't even looked at all the code yet, much less do so on any regular cadence. Forgetting is something you plan on and address up-front, not something you just let happen.