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by silvestrov 1519 days ago
Indeed.

If the code has turned to spagetti then how do you manage to change code quickly (due to e.g. Corona rules) so you can follow where the market went and not get competed out of business?

When the company is in startup mode and has no customers, it's easy to just throw more mud on the wall.

But when you have an existing business based on 1M lines of code and you want to keep being in the market when the market changes quickly, then spagetti code can be death. Being ready means having cleaned up code beforehand so it is easy to change it.