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by xixixao 1881 days ago
What’s underestimated is attitude. Same situation, 2 ways of looking at it:

“Our codebase sucks, we’re constantly running into issues, can’t change things. We’ll have to rewrite it all. I hate this”

“This codebase allowed our company to scale to XXX $s/users! It served us well but now’s a time to rewrite it to fit our new needs: reliability, scalability. This is a great challenge and opportunity for those working on it. I love this”