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by morcus 472 days ago
> written throwaway code to make a deadline

A deadline is a business decision. An engineer makes a tradeoff (incurring tech debt) in order to meet the business goal. How is this remotely an ethics issue?

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Good point. If you hadn’t met the deadline, there would be no opportunity to encounter the software functioning in any state.