"Don’t deploy on Fridays", "We’ll refactor that later", "If it works, don’t touch it." These mantras have become the soundtrack of software development, repeated so often they’ve started to sound like wisdom. But what if they’re just comforting lies we tell ourselves to avoid the hard work of doing things better?

This is a wake-up call for devs who’ve grown way too comfortable with excuses. We’ll tackle the uncomfortable truths: technical debt isn’t the villain, and overengineering is just ego dressed up as cleverness. If deployments terrify you, it’s not the calendar’s fault: it’s your process. And that code you “won’t touch because it works”? It’s quietly becoming tomorrow’s biggest problem.

You’ll walk away with a renewed perspective on building resilient systems, and creating a development culture you can trust. It’s time to stop joking about survival-mode mantras and start building software that’s reliable, maintainable, and deployable: yes, even on a Friday.