Reminds me of ids policy of "As soon as you see a bug, you fix it"

"...if you don't fix your bugs your new code will be built on buggy code and ensure an unstable foundation and if you check in buggy code someone else is going to be writing code based on your bad code and well you know you can imagine how wasteful that's going to be"

16:22 of "The Early Days of id Software: Programming Principles" by John Romero (Strange Loop 2022) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzqdZAYcwfY&t=982s

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AdamN 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah, Joel Spolsky is adamant about this with the "Bugs First" approach and he claims most of the delays and garbage that Microsoft released during the early years of his career were centered on that one rule being violated.

	▲	Wololooo an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The problem is even if you make a note to fix it later, one you never get back to it and two this drives decisions for things around it, until it breaks...