If you're working to get a certain task done at your job, yes I can see wanting to minimally touch the code. If something gets bad enough, I will refactor the

If you're working to get a certain task done at your job, yes I can see wanting to minimally touch the code. If something gets bad enough, I will refactor the whole damn thing, but only at jobs where there are unit tests. If there are no unit tests, this truly becomes an impossible task and it's best not to touch anything you don't need to. You have to have good tests if you ever want to tackle technical debt.