In most companies there's no incentive to write good code. It does the job? Keep it. Oh it costs 5x in AWS costs than it theoretically could if it was a good design? Who cares nobody even understands infrastructure costs
That happens when you are a good developer too.
Way uncool of OP to expose me like this
I mean, this all sounds like shit, yes. But sometimes things are only a little bit shit and yet the answer is still "redesign the approach" (ie: start over).
I feel called out
👏Always👏be👏refactoring👏
When be coding?
"for each desired change, make the change easy (warning: this may be hard), then make the easy change"
Kent Beck (got this version of his quote from Twitter but it's much older than that)
this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2024
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