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Best Advice For Every Programmer

Technical debt Software development Legacy code Code maintenance Coding horror Programming wisdom Murphy's law It works Don't fix it

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1 year ago 288,915 views 0 shares

Best Advice For Every Programmer

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The universal law of programming nobody teaches in CS degrees: "If it works, don't touch it." That moment when your janky code with 17 nested if-statements and zero comments somehow passes all tests, and you back away from the keyboard like you're defusing a bomb. The code is held together by digital duct tape and prayers, but hey—ship it! Future you can deal with that technical debt... or better yet, whoever inherits your codebase after you've conveniently switched teams.

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