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> Which it doesn’t always.

The problem is even if this is "known" upfront things always end up changing.

Unless the code is truly throw away code and not checked into source control.

I'm maybe guilty of being too harsh with this sometimes but the amount of times half-assed code has woken me up has trained me to be very critical of assumptions like this.



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