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by t-writescode 37 days ago
They said a Proof of Concept goes to prod. That’s not “rewrite the whole service that’s been built for months”. That’s “I vomitted a neat thing over the weekend” -> now it’s in prod.

Hackathon and overnight oncall fixes ABSOLUTELY should be rewritten or production-hardened, but they very often are not.