songmu The special team returned the debt and disbanded! Be careful, it’s an anti-pattern of something like that.

songmu: the beauty of the style is that the person who dutifully returns technical debt (or thinks he does) is soon out of it, and it becomes a two-story technical debt

tomooda software asset is not the source code, but the software engineers who created that source code. Source code is more of a liability. The effect of refactoring is to clear the heads of the software engineers rather than the cleanliness of the software. And yet, if you dissolve the company, you’re left with only liabilities.


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