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[–] [email protected] 167 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (19 children)

Refactoring is something that should be constantly done in a code base, for every story. As soon as people get scared about changing things the codebase is on the road to being legacy.

[–] russmatney 1 points 1 year ago

We used to call this ‘Code is Cheap’ at my last job - you’re spot on about the value of it

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