I spent 3 days cleaning up our login code, making it way easier to work with, and added proper tests. Now my PM is asking why I bothered since it wasn't broken, and my TL said it wasn't necessary work. How do you convince management that fixing messy code matters when all they care about is shipping features?

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You're definitely better than me. The messy code was there when I got here, and it will be here long after I'm gone 😆 They should appreciate your effort because not a lot of people would've bothered.

Thanks!

Try to have the conversation before spending days on it. Then you can show the benefits and get them on board with it. A lot of people take the “If it isn’t broke, don’t fix it” approach and don’t realize how easily it can become broken, typically at the worst time possible.

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