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My advice is to not worry too much, but to follow the boy scout rule: leave code in slightly better shape than you found it. Code quality matters to no one - n
by bcrosby95 6y ago
My advice is to not worry too much, but to follow the boy scout rule: leave code in slightly better shape than you found it. Code quality matters to no one - not even other developers - if the code in question is never revisited. The boy scout rule helps ensure that code that doesn't need to be good doesn't have time wasted on making it better, and code that needs to be higher quality naturally becomes higher quality.
- mandelbrotwurst 6y agoThis is fine advice, but it's really advice for an individual more than an org, and if you are in leadership you need to consider whether your teams and processes are set up in a way that both leaves room for your engineers to do this and also ideally even actively encourages their doing so. To phrase it another way: Each engineer might have the best of intentions but if success is measured by new feature velocity, adherence to this rule becomes less likely.