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The Boy Scout Rule πŸ’‘πŸ‘©β€πŸ’»

This post is going to be a little different.


Most engineers have heard of the β€˜boy-scout rule’: β€˜Always leave the code better than you found it.’ It’s often been heralded as a magic cure for technical debt; if only all software engineers behaved like good citizens, our software wouldn’t deteriorate so relentlessly.


A small snippet from an office talk describing impact of it on real projects:

Sameer on coding standards (LinkedIn)


Audio snippet:

Tarka Labs audio snippet (Twitter)


What you think about conscious negligence and voluntarily clearing technical debt left by previous engineers?


Quote referred from: Here