Ship it Memes

The eternal developer dilemma: ship it broken or fix it properly? The left panel shows the guilt of knowing you've written garbage code. The right panel is that sweet rationalization that kicks in – "It's fine, that feature's buried so deep in the settings menu even QA probably didn't test it." We've all been there. That quick fix at 4:55 PM on Friday that you KNOW will come back to haunt you in six months when someone actually discovers that page. But hey, what's the worst that could happen? (Narrator: The worst did, in fact, happen.)

Compiler warnings? What compiler warnings? The code runs, doesn't it? That's the unspoken mantra of developers pushing to production. The painful truth is that most of us treat "0 errors : 5678 warnings" exactly the same as "0 errors : 0 warnings" — ship it and let future-you deal with the technical debt! Why fix what technically isn't broken? The compiler is clearly being dramatic.