We Will Fix It Later

Ah, the classic technical debt masterpiece! Two construction workers building a brick wall that's completely misaligned and chaotic, captioned with the most dangerous phrase in software development: "Just keep coding. We can always fix it later."

This is basically every sprint planning meeting where the product manager needs features yesterday. The wall represents your codebase - structurally questionable but somehow still standing. Those crooked bricks? That's your hastily written functions that somehow pass the tests.

Spoiler alert: "later" never comes. Six months from now you'll be explaining to new hires why there's a comment that says "// TODO: Refactor this nightmare before 2018".