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by Forge36 2663 days ago
I inherited an internal tool from someone who left the company. They weren't a software developer. Everything had comments (not function comments/XML headers), behavior comments. Some were "someone who knows how to code should clean this up", "I want to do x but couldn't figure it out, this is close". It lacked clear abstractions, it was mostly one file. It wasn't even in a repository. The program was however purpose built for use by the developer, and people in a similar role at the company.

The team who was supposed own it hated it, so I get to work on it :)

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There's a saying about how it's easier to bring design to something without design than bring good design to something with bad design.