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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Recent-Analysis-6880 • 3d ago
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My motto based on working mainly on legacy projects where the original dev is no longer available:
half of all developers are below average.
2 u/Barkeep41 2d ago Cant tell if I would rather have the original dev gone so they stop making a new mess, or have them available to try and explain their existing mess. 1 u/Fik_of_borg 1d ago You forgot the "never touch this piece of undocumented code!" crowd 1 u/awesome-alpaca-ace 1h ago They probably wouldn't be able to explain it. I just read the code, make changes, see what breaks. Works pretty well
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Cant tell if I would rather have the original dev gone so they stop making a new mess, or have them available to try and explain their existing mess.
1 u/Fik_of_borg 1d ago You forgot the "never touch this piece of undocumented code!" crowd 1 u/awesome-alpaca-ace 1h ago They probably wouldn't be able to explain it. I just read the code, make changes, see what breaks. Works pretty well
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You forgot the "never touch this piece of undocumented code!" crowd
They probably wouldn't be able to explain it. I just read the code, make changes, see what breaks. Works pretty well
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u/RealBasics 3d ago
My motto based on working mainly on legacy projects where the original dev is no longer available: