Re:Shitlist Driven Development (2016)
by harryf on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @11:57AM
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Exactly. What's nice about this approach is it factors in the "behavioural economics" of developers. As the author puts it...
> At the end of the day, everyone needs to get work done, and if they see a code-path already being used from 10 places in the code-base despite these soft warnings–it doesn’t seem crazy to introduce another.
Even the best person with the best intentions will take a short cut under some circumstances, meaning to fix it later then getting distracted before that happens.
> At the end of the day, everyone needs to get work done, and if they see a code-path already being used from 10 places in the code-base despite these soft warnings–it doesn’t seem crazy to introduce another.
Even the best person with the best intentions will take a short cut under some circumstances, meaning to fix it later then getting distracted before that happens.