You Are Being Sentenced To 5 Years In The Legacy Code Mines

Refactoring Legacy code Junior developers Technical debt Code maintenance Greenfield Developer punishment management Career path

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6 months ago 291,091 views 0 shares

You Are Being Sentenced To 5 Years In The Legacy Code Mines

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Ah, the classic corporate punishment for competence! You thought you'd be praised for transforming that junior's messy greenfield project into a beautiful, efficient masterpiece? Rookie mistake. Now you've proven you can handle the worst code in existence, so naturally, leadership is sentencing you to 5 years of maintaining ancient legacy systems where semicolons from 2003 are considered historical artifacts and commenting code is viewed as "unnecessary documentation." Your reward for excellence is basically being sent to digital archaeology duty. Congrats on the promotion!

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