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by criley2 36 days ago
Brother, I don't care who writes the specs as long as they sign the checks on time. And yes, I do care about my work even if upstream is slop. In a relay race, you can lower your performance to weakest leg, or you can be the strongest leg. And maybe I just like to run.
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Fair enough, but now imagine that the code is slop too. You're getting slopped from both sides, do you still care?
In my humble opinion, most of the code I've ever touched was slop, and I think I left it in a better state than I found it. What more can you do?