Your Programmer Conscience

Technical debt Code quality Deadlines Developer anxiety Inner voice Imposter syndrome Clean code Time management Work pressure

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Your Programmer Conscience

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The eternal battle between quality and deadlines! First, your conscience gently whispers about your terrible code. Then it screams profanities demanding you delete that monstrosity. Finally, your deadline-panic-mode kicks in and tells your conscience to shut up because shipping anything is better than shipping nothing. The duality of every developer's mind perfectly captured in this existential crisis - write beautiful code or actually finish the project on time? Spoiler alert: we always choose the deadline and live with the technical debt shame spiral later.

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