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Interesting. How do you find that out?

s/"a god"/"finished for the day"

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Venn diagram of Lemmy users and Mary Poppins stans barely touching.

Yeah but you get a nice ramp-up period where you're allowed to be bewildered and unproductive. In that time, you can probably pick out two or three grandiose changes (ideally with hot new technologies) to throw on the pile before that period ends, and use them as resume padding and interview stories for the next job.

Unlike the old developers, you aren't complicit in the mess until a few years go by.

There's a second-order thing going on though with tech debt that makes it different than just maintenance: Tech debt is when you address a problem in a way that makes future problems more difficult to address. So if the wire-and-tape fix is actually robust, easy to work around, and/or easy to reverse, then it wouldn't be tech debt. But if it made it harder to unclog/clean the tap, or to fix the next leak, or install/remove things around it, then it would be like tech debt.

If that works, you should try it with a product that you aren't interested in too and compare the results.

Sound was quite atrocious, downvoted 👎

git is the bidet of information.

Maybe? But it's not like that's the only alternative thing to say, lol

Lie. Or at best, dangerously wrong. Like saying "Crosswalks make cars incapable of harming pedestrians who stay within them."

What are some shortcomings in your view?