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Comment by maxwellg

1 year ago

On days I write code, I try to do one "cleanup" PR a day just to get myself warmed up. Sometimes it is removing a feature flag, sometimes it is rewriting a file to use some new standards like a better logger library or test pattern. None of this is ticketed work, and if something takes longer than ten minutes or so I drop it and work on whatever I was going to work on originally. Make (trivial) cleanups a fun treat and a break from real work and it is easier to get other people excited about them.

Of course, lately anything trivial I ask codex to do - but there is still fun in figuring out what trivial thing I should have it take on next.