Self-Admitted Technical Debt · It Will Never Work in Theory

The word "FIXME" appears 18 times in the source code of a small open source project I contribute to, and almost exactly the same number of times in the much larger code base I help develop in my job. Is that just a coincidence, or does it mean that I'm comfortable with a fixed amount of technical debt in any project regardless of size? Alternatively, does the lower density of…
This story appeared on neverworkintheory.org, 2023-03-16.