Lets Make It Better

Refactoring Code optimization Overengineering Technical debt Feature creep Regression Broken build Premature optimization It worked yesterday

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Lets Make It Better

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Ah, the classic "if it ain't broke, break it" approach to software development! Guy's peacefully riding along with working code, then thinks "let's refactor this perfectly functional code to make it better" and BAM—face-plants spectacularly into dependency hell. This is basically every developer who's ever said "I'll just make a small improvement" at 4:55 PM on a Friday. The bike was fine until you decided to "optimize" it, genius. Next time maybe just commit the working version before you decide to "improve" it?

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