[flukus]

> I’ve carved a career out of rebuilds

What's your learning process? If you don't do maintenance how do you know your rebuilds aren't creating the same problems that lead to the systems needing replacement?

I've got a very well founded distrust of people that only work on green field projects, they're generally responsible for the system's that need rebuilding.

[omeid2]

I have also come to believe that people who jump to rebuilds also tend to have very shallow technical skills and are not keen or capable of studying and analyzing a system at depth.

[tomelders]

Complete nonsense.

[tomelders]

Well there's little else you can do when your app is a Java applet and your runtime has just vanished from the web. These things still exist, and people like me are rebuilding them.

I don't appreciate the snark in your comment.