alt Hacker News"There're no metrics showing this is a problem (because it's not live yet), so I will not write it correctly!"
"This other unrelated thing in the code is slower, so writing this correctly is a poor use of time!"
"There're no metrics showing this is a problem (because it's not live yet), so I will not write it correctly!"
"This other unrelated thing in the code is slower, so writing this correctly is a poor use of time!"
This is closely related to the "There's no point in addressing that problem, because if/when it does become a problem, you'll have 10,000 other bigger problems to worry about" mentality -- which quite ironically, inevitably results in 10,001 things going wrong at an inopportune moment.