Software Gardener

software engineer Job titles Legacy code Technical debt Code maintenance Software development Tech industry

Programming Debugging Agile

1 year ago 162,367 views 0 shares

Software Gardener

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Forget fancy titles like "engineer" or "developer" - what we really do is tend to legacy code jungles, prune buggy branches, and desperately try to stop feature weeds from choking our beautiful architecture. Just call me what I am: a software gardener who spends 90% of my time pulling out the spaghetti code someone else planted five years ago.

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