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The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
eventually the entire project becomes a ball of tech debt and you have to nuke it from orbit. you won’t, because the company will go under, but it’s what you should do.

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Deep Dish Fuckfest
Sep 6, 2006

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Toilet Rascal
you do nothing but keep track of the various fires that erupt everywhere and do your best to smother them for a time

you have no time to look outside the code base and learn new things

you get rusty and before long you can't get hired anywhere else

you can't even fathom doing things differently anymore

you block anyone who attempts to change things

you have become the tech debt

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:

you have become the tech debt

time to raise your interest rates

MrMoo
Sep 14, 2000

Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:

you do nothing but keep track of the various fires that erupt everywhere and do your best to smother them for a time

I have this code base, it’s not possible to smother only slightly subdue. The major issue is that refactoring one bit ends up multiple times the effort due to keeping the existing broken interfaces. Followed by then having to hack and maintain third party libraries for fixes because you cannot upgrade.

SideEffectShit
Oct 10, 2022

by Pragmatica
it's on the house babe :frogc00l:

Canine Blues Arooo
Jan 7, 2008

when you think about it...i'm the first girl you ever spent the night with

Grimey Drawer
You fix sixteen bugs
and what do you get?
Another two tickets and deeper in debt
St. Linus don't call me cuz I can't go
I owe my soul to this cursed tech stack.

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Ciaphas
Nov 20, 2005

> BEWARE, COWARD :ovr:


Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:

you do nothing but keep track of the various fires that erupt everywhere and do your best to smother them for a time

you have no time to look outside the code base and learn new things

you get rusty and before long you can't get hired anywhere else

you can't even fathom doing things differently anymore

you block anyone who attempts to change things

you have become the tech debt
at step 2 & approaching step 3

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