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It's tricky when it gets to the point that you need specific tasks to clean things up.

But lots of developers think any amount of cleanup needs to be scheduled. No, it does not. When you build on a feature, you modify the feature so that you can actually build on it in a reasonable fashion.

Lots of developers will, instead of doing that, shove round pegs into square holes. There's nothing about a task that says you have to do it in the sloppiest, shittiest way possible. It's like the plumbers that cut through your floor joists because that's the easiest way to get their drain in.



Gotta get their PRs merged fast to look good and be a team player (with the project/product manager).




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