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by matthewmacleod 4522 days ago
"Bad management"

These are the things that get cleared up by code reviews, break sprints, bug hunts, periodic refactoring… in many cases, YANGTNI applies. That's not an excuse for long-term sloppy code, but it's an excuse for developing good practice when making changes to an existing codebase.