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I forget where I first saw it, but there's a joke of "ten lines, ten issues; 1,000 lines, looks good". There's a human limit to how much you can hold in your head when reviewing code.


Looks like the programmer's version of: "If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/214064-if-you-owe-the-bank-...


I think it's a double edged sword - people are also way too nitty for small commits, which only incentivizes behavior like this.




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