alt Hacker News> “I disabled the test so it’s not run so now all the tests pass”
Also:
"I implemented it this terrible way because of precedence in the codebase...that I just wrote"
"I avoided implementing this correctly because of migration concern for existing installations of this code I'm writing right now"
"I deferred this critical feature for the future, so we can deploy quicker"
or, my favorite,
"I hand rolled an buggy http server because you said the tool should be self contained"
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> "I avoided implementing this correctly because of migration concern for existing installations of this code I'm writing right now"
This one grinds my gears so bad, probably 1/4 of my job at this point is telling an LLM (either in my own editor or in review comments for someone's MR) "how about we do this right _before_ merging it, eh?".
Or:
foo = abc
<Maybe 4-10 lines of code>
if foo != None:
...
Or bizarrely Claude askes about code churn like it matters.
Human, Do you want me to do it the right way? It will cause code churn in 90 files. Or I can take a shortcut and edit 3 files in a terrible way.
Edits 90 files for 12 lines each in 25 seconds...