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by esafak 489 days ago
> Maybe some product will become a hell with millions of lines of code that no one knows how to evolve and manage.

That is exactly what will happen, so why would you do that?

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I think I might be forced to do this by the metrics that measure me at work "things have to work right away and have to scale quickly to other low-skilled people"
On the other hand you should ask yourself why do you care? If you assume no human will ever read the code except in very extraordinary circumstances, why wouldn’t you do that?