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by Ntrails 2107 days ago
> If you look at the majority of private code bases in the world, they'll look like crap

I sometimes think that the first set of people working on most software are just trying to get it to work at all, with limited expertise and lots of duct tape. Then come some journeymen who have to add more things. And, well, when I am writing code it tends to look a lot like the stuff around it... things just get Progressively worse!

I am not a dev. I don't intentionally write bad code, but the code I write sometimes hits prod. I don't really know what "good" and "clean" really look like. Just "works" and "doesn't".