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by geertj 1672 days ago
That is a great skill. I’ve been calling this ‘respect for working software.’ There’s tons of benefits. First it improves your decision making with respect to evolving this piece of software, as you are now less likely to embark on a unnecessary rewrite or refactor. Second it lowers your stress as you can actually enjoy working on the piece of code. Overall you’ll be a (much) more effective SDE.