[fjjjrjj]

And the only better experience than that is killing a new greenfield project before it gets to production because the old software was good enough and the problems were organizational in how the software was being used.

[4ndrewl]

The best code is the code that doesn't exist.

[antisthenes]

Certainly the most secure code. Not sure about best.

[ticklemyelmo]

Better on every axis: security, performance, resource consumption, reliability, verification, documentation...

Code is a pure liability that you accept to get a useful service.

[greenchair]

exactly..which is also why lines of code written is one of if not the worst possible metric of productivity. easy to game too.

[escapecharacter]

I marked my transition to senior engineer when my net lines of code flipped to negative.

Not that I game that obviously, it just occurred naturally for a ~4 month period

[bell-cot]

> Better on every axis...

How 'bout job security?

[rzzzt]

Anyone can write no code.

[MonkeyClub]

But it takes a master to not write the write piece.

[lawn]

I thought it was pretty funny how we had this large project that was supposed to replace a legacy system (that was mostly a bad hack that got pushed to production).

But when it was finished it failed to meet the basic requirements for the only customer that used the system.

[lmm]

Once you're senior enough those cases won't be funny any more, just sad.

[lawn]

I have a very dark sense of humor sometimes.

But yes, it's sad.

[Cthulhu_]

I wish this happened tbh. I've seen one where the greenfield (Scala, AWS, etc) is still living alongside the old good enough software they went back to (C# / .NET) ten years on.