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		ojbyrne 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Some things to expect in 2025 I have been told (at a FAANG) not to fix those kind of code smells in existing code. “Don’t waste time on refactoring.”

dawnerd 8 months ago [–]

To be fair sometimes it just isn’t worth the companies time.

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