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fg137 • today at 1:45 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

A developer on my team introduced new features behind feature flags despite concerns about whether we should have those features and how they are going to be maintained. Changes touched 200+ files which is half of the files.

Turns out nobody wants to use them, they caused many subtle bugs in existing features and is a distraction for many things we do.

The developer left the team, and I am left with purging all of this.


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program_whiz • today at 3:07 PM

Now imagine if he had 100x the speed! I'm sure AI will help him thoughtfully pay off tech debt at his next company!