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by ChrisMarshallNY 517 days ago
> Understand the code you write. Understand the code you choose not to write. Understand the code that was there before you got there.

Yup. I have seen so many people write stuff that could just be a YAML script, tying together massive dependency trees that they have no clue about.

Then, they lose it, when things go pear-shaped.

However, if the goal is to sell the company before the chickens come home to roost, it's a feature, not a bug.