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by jpollock 168 days ago
If improving a portion of the codebase makes it better, but inconsistent...

migrate the rest of the codebase!

Then everyone benefits from the discovery.

If that's difficult, write or find tooling to make that possible.

It's in the "if it hurts, do it more often" school of software dev.

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/FrequencyReducesDifficulty.ht...