[finnh]

Wow, I don't agree with that "law" at all. A couple times in my career I've worked for 5+ years in a codebase that I started, and it's always easier to read my old code than to read someone else's. Like, waay easier (unless the other person's code is super duper clean).

[CM30]

Those two views aren't necessarily opposites. Your old code can be hard to read, and other people's code can simply be even more difficult to understand than that.