Waiting for a dedicated "tech debt sprint" to clean up your code is a trap—it almost never happens. Here is how senior engineers maintain high code quality daily without slowing down delivery. Main Post Technical debt accumulates silently. A quick hack here, an unoptimized function there, and within six months, a once-agile project becomes a fragile nightmare to maintain. The solution isn’t halting feature development for two weeks to rewrite modules; it is practicing Micro-Refactoring. Micro-refactoring is the practice of leaving any file you touch slightly better than you found it, adhering to the Boy Scout Rule. By spending just 5 to 10 minutes refactoring during your standard task workflow, you continuously reduce debt without impacting your sprint velocity.