[collyw]

Have you ever worked on the same project for more than a year?

That's the sort of timescale where you notice quick hacky solutions come back to haunt you later. Sure you will deliver things quickly at first, but when you do have to modify things, or fix your own bugs it becomes a nightmare.

[Swizec]

Yeah, been maintaining the same software for 4 years now. Honestly the elegantly designed beautiful parts of the systems have been the hardest to maintain. They end up too specialized to a single use-case and you have to keep rebuilding them from scratch.

Meanwhile the hacky code keeps chugging along happily and dealing easily-ish with any new requirement you throw at it.