There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get

תקציר מקורי באנגלית<p><a href="https://lobste.rs/s/rfn2mn/there_s_no_limit_how_bad_code_can_get#c_8kdtaw">My comment</a> on <a href="https://lobste.rs/s/rfn2mn/there_s_no_limit_how_bad_code_can_get">There&#x27;s No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get</a> &mdash; Lobste.rs.</p><p><em>[In reply to a comment about burning it down to start from scratch when technical debt becomes overwhelming]</em></p> <p>In my experience it's <em>so rare</em> for that to work.</p> <p>You announce the old thing is irrecoverably drowning in tech debt. You spin up a team to rewrite it from scratch. Work begins.</p> <p>Meanwhile the old thing remains a moving target: it's running the core business, so changes are still necessary. The developers working on it know that it's going to be made obsolete by the new thing soon, so they don't ha