- cross-posted to:
- lobsters@lemmy.bestiver.se
- cross-posted to:
- lobsters@lemmy.bestiver.se
A client’s team spent a full week adding a CSV export to their admin panel. Two engineers, clear requirements, maybe a day of actual work. The rest of the time went to understanding existing code well enough to change it safely. That’s what I call codebase drag: when the codebase makes every task take longer than it should. It doesn’t show up in any dashboard or sprint report.


Instead of deadlines, let’s call them lifelines.