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Discussion on: Software Projects Die By A Thousand Cuts

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It's a game of balancing priorities, as so often is the case in programming. Little issues tend only to become important when they're messing with a new feature, or causing a customer grief.

But it's also a bit of a mindspace issue. Usually when I tackle small coding issues I try to group them together. If I have several in one module I can get into that code, fix many things, and be more productive than if I jump around randomly. If there's no obvious grouping of issues you might just avoid doing them.