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"There is no later." is my new mantra.


That reminds of codebases littered with Todos… where I like to Yoda it… do or do not, there is no todo.


A TODO is not inherently bad, but I think intent is important— how likely is it that someone will come back here purely with an intention to address that comment? If not likely, then the TODO will be taken up in the context of future refactoring and in that case it's a gift to the person eventually contemplating that work, helping them understand something about the code or context that you realised too late in the project to be able to act on it.


I have to favorite mantras related to this:

There is nothing more permanent than temporary.

... and ...

We don't have time to do it right, but we do have time to do it twice.




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