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by dezgeg 656 days ago
Also not so coincidentally the 'fun' to fix debt is often prioritized over critical debt.

Case in point, the situation with our flaky/unstable test got so bad that quarter of them are now to set ignore any failures. Pretty much zero interest in fixing.

Meanwhile, the rewrite of a service that had no outstanding bugs (but was originally written by other team but handed to us) is still not done after 4 months...