Hahaha… Ha… Ha…

At my company we allocate 20% of our time on “Better engineering”, and it counts as impact when you’re up for bonuses/raises so people actually have a reason to push to do it

Don’t forget about the fabled but often discussed “tech debt sprint”.

Worst part is when the un-refactored code continues to confuse other devs, meaning it keeps causing additional work, but you still don’t get time to actually fix it.

True story: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/commit/32cbbea879432acd4f567e3b3d1cbff0e35f2d03#diff-92ac2fdd9b835cbf74ab94fe4d65aaacb92ae207

(I know I’m full of shit, even when I’m writing the comment).