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by HeyLaughingBoy 76 days ago
Prepare to make absolute bank on maintenance charges when they can't debug what they built? That's what I'd be thinking!

That aside, there's an awful lot of unprofessional comments in this thread. Guys, this is just business: people are paying you money for your talent. Sometimes you just have to wallow in the muck, but at least you're paid to do it.

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This is what I thought, too. Watch them dig a hole for themselves while you take a vacation. And then when they fail to debug the mess, charge them by the day for your expertise, because it’ll be necessary for untangling that mess.
They will definitely not be able to debug what they built at a certain point. I think their strategy will be to delete parts of the application, and rebuild them, but this will not be sustainable. This comment (and similar ones) helped me to detach from the project's quality and code, and see the business opportunities that may arise in the near future. I think there will be a lot of maintenance, and someone has to make sure the infrastructure and integrations with other systems and platforms won't collapse.