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Re:Beware of Developers Who Do Negative Work by joeguilmette on Sunday December 18, 2016 @11:44PM (#13209545)
It's a balance you need to run. But as a PM, spaghetti fixers are indeed very nice to have around. Keeping an eye on technical debt is important though.
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Re:Beware of Developers Who Do Negative Work by flukus on Monday December 19, 2016 @12:02AM (#13209576)
The hardest part isn't the technical debt, it's detecting when spaghetti fixers are actually adding features to the product.
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Re:Beware of Developers Who Do Negative Work by joeguilmette on Monday December 19, 2016 @11:06AM (#13212264)
This is another great point. Our support team is directly linked to a spaghetti fixer, this is great bc bugs are squished instantly.

But sometimes a new checkbox appears and that is a real problem.

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