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by hn_reader 5333 days ago
> "To a person fighting a critical bug they lack this luxury. It's my job when I create code to help the person debugging it (even if it's me) to understand the code as quick as possible so that they may find and solve the problem as soon as possible."

I am quite often in this situation - maintaining code written by others on a very tight schedule, weekends, evenings, trying to find and fix bugs and still make it to the next family commitment, etc. Wish more people understood this and considered the many future maintainers when writing their code.