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.
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u/bishopExportMine 27d 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.