[paulddraper]

100% agree.

But I like to think that ideas and solutions and products can be legacies.

It's semi-uncommon to write code that legitimately lasts 5+ years.

But it's very common to work on projects/products/companies that last 15+ years.

And I have to be content with that.

[cookieperson]

Most code that survives 5 years survived for all the wrong reasons. That said, most code that's survived five years is often a profitable product with a reasonable human at the helm telling us needs to not to touch it