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Software becomes legacy very fast. I have seen so many projects were people who understood all of it, are just gone. They moved, did something else etc. As so
by MLgulabio 9mo ago
Software becomes legacy very fast.
I have seen so many projects were people who understood all of it, are just gone. They moved, did something else etc.
As soon as this happens, you no longer have anyone 'getting it'. You have to handle so many people adding/changing very thin lines across all components and you can only hope that the original people had enough foresight adding enough unit tests for core decisions.
So i really don't mind AI here anymore.
- rnewme 9mo agoNot sure why this is dead, but in nearly all of my consulting gigs sooner or later I ended up having to check on project/service that is effectively abandoned. Last time this morning. Luckily I had claude code and CLI tools to go through few dozen repos and millions LOC to find some obscure endpoints and data structures, since there wasn't even anyone to ask what to look for.