Cognitive Biases In Software Development

A couple of years ago, I started my first job as a programmer. On the first day, I entered the office, sat in my new chair, turned on the computer, checked out a project from the version control system and opened it in IDE. The first-ever piece of the code I saw looked like that: // TODO it works, but it's ugly, rewrite function init() { // some code } As you may already have guessed, this code remained untouched for a couple of years, until the project became obsolete and was archived and longer used....

March 18, 2020 ยท 13 min