The Code Cleanup Loop

There's no point doing code clean up until I know it works It works now, there's no point cleaning up the code

A flowchart shows a programmer endlessly postponing code cleanup: first they want to make sure the code works, and once it works, they decide cleanup is unnecessary. The joke captures the self-defeating loop of procrastination and messy working code.

• @dev_meme / 4510 2022-06-21