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Keep calm, and force push
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You can fix it later, but that doesn't mean you're going to.
Nothing's more permanent than a temporary solution.
Technical debt goes brrrrrrrrr
They can't fire you if you're the only one who can fix your shit...
Oh, they can, they will just force some other poor programmer to read your code and figure it out. A profoundly miserable process, but someone is willing to do it.
my heart goes out to the poor soul who tries to make sense of my code
Later there will be other projects, other fires.
I’ve seen a “temporary fix” serve as a core element of a service stack for a company with annual revenue in the hundreds of millions for like at least 5 years.