Clean Code vs Deadline: A Project Manager's Nightmare

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Clean Code vs Deadline: A Project Manager's Nightmare

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When the deadline's breathing down your neck, suddenly writing clean code becomes an impossible luxury. The project manager's watching in horror as you smash that deadline button, leaving a trail of spaghetti code, magic numbers, and zero comments in your wake. "We'll refactor later," you whisper to yourself, knowing full well that "later" is programmer-speak for "never." The technical debt collectors will come knocking eventually, but hey—that's Future You's problem!

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