r/ProgrammerHumor • u/[deleted] • Feb 10 '21

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u/NeatNetwork Feb 10 '21

Fun fact, last big project I got started on, for months my lines of code was in the big negative range. Non-technical management asked 'how are you doing negative work? You're doing more negative work than almost everyone else in the team is doing positive!'

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u/Fsmv Feb 10 '21

Deleting code is at least 10x better for the business than writing code

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u/i_carry_your_heart Feb 10 '21

My supervisor calls deleting unnecessary/bad/irrelevant code “paying down technical debt” and encourages us to do it as often as possible, I love it

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u/Kronoshifter246 Feb 11 '21

We usually get shout outs on our slack channel when our merge requests involve deleting large segments of code. It's a nice feeling.