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Re:The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer (2020) by jcelerier on Friday January 20, 2023 @02:08PM (#34458119)
or is it ? some code is made to be long-lasting (and that's the one we "see" because of course it lasted long already) but the large majority is short-term projects which are only relevant for a few months / years and will never get reused afterwards.
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Re:The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer (2020) by JohnBooty on Friday January 20, 2023 @04:01PM (#34459887)
Hah, yeah, I think we haven't a terminology difference here. I wouldn't even term "bad" code in short-lived projects to be "tech debt" in the first place.

I definitely agree you about the near irrelevance of tech debt in short lived projects.

     the large majority is short-term projects which
Is this really true? Really depends on where you work, I guess. It hasn't generally been my experience.

But it really depends on if you're working at e.g. an agency vs. working on long lived in house projects.

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