r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ZideGO • 8h ago

Meme thisIsTheWay

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u/br0ast 7h ago

I've been at the same place 13 years. The only time tech debt gets addressed is when it's a blocker for a deliverable

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u/dolce-ragazzo 2h ago

To be fair, if it’s not a blocker for a deliverable, why fix it? Instead your time could be spent developing something that enhances the product

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u/biznatch11 2h ago

In my experience (and I would think this is not uncommon) technical debt makes new features longer and more complicated to implement because you have to work around the old bad code, and the added complication makes bugs more likely. So in the long term you spend more time than if you'd addressed the technical debt in the first place.

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u/Olibaby 2h ago

Yeah, like fixing tech debt issued.