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A production bug hits at 4:52 PM on Friday. Customers suffer. You need a fix now.
You apply a patch. You promise to clean it up next sprint. The patch works. You move on.
The next sprint arrives. Priorities change. A new feature takes over. The cleanup task stays in the backlog.
New engineers join your team. They see the fix. They think this is how the system works. They build new features around it.
This is how software debt grows. The fix does not break things. It works well enough. Because it works, you leave it alone.
Years pass. You try to remove the patch. You ask your team if it is safe. Nobody knows.
The original engineer left. The documentation is missing. Deleting the fix feels riskier than keeping it.
Shortcuts are not the enemy. You need them during a crisis. The mistake is ignoring the deadline to fix them.
Give every shortcut an expiration date. Otherwise, your temporary fix becomes your system.
Source: https://dev.to/omieee_24/why-every-quick-fix-eventually-becomes-a-core-dependency-5g69 Optional learning community: https://t.me/GyaanSetuAi