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> You might end up being the one who killed your company.

If an extra day to clean up your code is an issue, your company is already dead. What if you have to push it back a day because you get sick?

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I agree, but the problem is that it is never 'just a day.' Developer comes and needs a couple hours to clean up some code. Cool, the a couple hours turns into a day, then a week, then no new features are being shipped. It is very easy to get into a constant refactoring perfectionist state to the point where nothing ships. It is so common in fact that we have memes about 'real engineers ship'.

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