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the last mile, where good intentions go to either die or finally matter.
means the act of restoring order after a process — code, a room, a crime scene, a database — has made its mess.
from from clean, old english claene meaning pure, plus up as an intensifier finisher; baseball popularized cleanup hitter in the 1880s for the batter who clears the bases of runners, cementing the finish-the-job sense.
baseball origincleanup hitter bats fourth, clears loaded bases
coding termcleanup code runs even if errors occur
psychology costfinishing tasks feels harder than starting them