> No please don't do this, no one will ever do the todo. I've worked in numerous places where TODO placeholders were regularly processed by devs as an explicit

> No please don't do this, no one will ever do the todo. I've worked in numerous places where TODO placeholders were regularly processed by devs as an explicitly scheduled exercise. If the TODOs are being left to rot, this seems a symptom of bad dev process management, rather than being inherent to the pattern itself. > create a ticket While I've never seen it rigidly enforced, most TODOs I've worked with have been linked to relevant tickets (with ticket #number being referenced in the TODO comment). It's also clearly common enough practice to be supported out-of-the-box without config both by many IDE syntax highlighters and also, I think, by some linters.