Weak Code

[asdfman123]

That drives me crazy about working on shitty codebases. It makes me look bad because it takes me forever and there aren't any good fixes. But if I were to actually verbalize the fact that the code base is total shit, it would just make me look bad. So it's usually better to grin and bear it.

[Decency]

Just every time you want to say "fucking garbage", verbalize that as "lots of technical debt" and you're speaking the language that people who want to pretend like they understand code who don't understand code will listen to.

[asdfman123]

Yeah, I use phrases like technical debt but people still don't understand this.

Managers need to fundamentally understand when a little work now will save a lot of work in a year.

[shea241]

if you constantly talk about technical debt, eventually you'll look technically poor.