Stop lying to yourself – you “fix it later”

Re:Stop lying to yourself – you “fix it later” by einpoklum on Monday November 21, 2022 @04:01AM (#33690412)

> If you never have to come back to “fix it”, was it actually wrong to begin with?

1. Ah, we often "have to", but also aren't allowed to because it would rock the boat too much and take too much time.

2. Unfortunately, too many coders share your attitude, and then other people have to work with what you guys left us - facing the consequences of making it do something which is different than the original settings, and being stuck with some jerry-rigged and inflexible set of assumptions. At least sketch out in comments what the better solution was supposed to be and where you cut the corners!

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Re:Stop lying to yourself – you “fix it later” by bentlegen on Monday November 21, 2022 @05:38PM (#33699129)

My last work as a programmer is open source and open to public scrutiny for what it’s worth. Today I help guide teams on that same codebase.

You can decide if the code contributions or engineering leadership decisions I’ve made have become intractable in the way you describe. I don’t feel they have, personally.

github.com/getsentry/sentry

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