Kill features if they're not used. Code is so hard to maintain, it's not worth keeping it.
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Chesterton's fence or something
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I guess to clarify, "kill features" must mean "remove things from the set of things you will support or fix". It does not necessarily mean change code.
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Yes. Leave things out to decay or be fixed by the thing you didn't realize was there. Imagine you don't know what is and isn't a test for example. Do you remove non failing tests bc you think are "unused"?
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Obviously refactoring or renaming has a place but it is not free. Good times for me is when I want some task to run my fingers through a piece of the tech. To get it in my memory perhaps before doing something tricky.
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