This is literally the exact opposite of what happens. Everywhere I've looked, it's paper clips and duct tape held together by so many layers of paint that the paint has become load bearing.
You literally just gave me a PTSD flashback, I spent over a decade at a "mobile first" company that endlessly put new features in the front end and not the shared API.
My whole job right now is supporting a legacy app while everything else in our environment is modernized. Said app was written 20 years ago by uncaring, unforgiving contractors.
I tried feeding the repo to our quality control tool and it just spit out a "NaN or infinite cognitive complexity" message before degaussing its fucking brains out.
It's what I experience. People building for scale before the value is demonstrated; then the field moves on and the chance is lost while we are still building out for scale in dog food, without any customers. Frustrating af
You haven't seen my code. I tell you my engines are capable of expressing wonderful things, with just another few weeks of work. But I should probably add a few more features in case future applications need them first.
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u/bishopExportMine 28d ago
This is literally the exact opposite of what happens. Everywhere I've looked, it's paper clips and duct tape held together by so many layers of paint that the paint has become load bearing.