Exit Employee Sends His Regards

documentation Software engineering Technical debt Legacy code Code maintenance Spaghetti code Onboarding Code comments Developer experience Job transition

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Exit Employee Sends His Regards

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The digital time bomb has been planted! Nothing strikes fear into a dev team like inheriting undocumented spaghetti code from someone who just rage-quit. That first day at the new company hits different when you realize you're now responsible for deciphering cryptic variable names, nested if-statements that reach the earth's core, and functions that were clearly written at 4am after a Red Bull marathon. The previous dev left behind their "masterpiece" with zero comments except maybe a passive-aggressive "good luck" somewhere. Technical debt inheritance is the gift that keeps on giving!

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