The best, worst codebase (Interview)

4328.547 - 4354.999 Jimmy Miller

I think it's something that we should do more of. I've worked in systems since that are a mess, but everyone's always trying to fix it. And I get that impulse because I hate the mess too. But sometimes it's just beyond fixing. This is why people give the advice of don't do the big rewrite, right? Because it's much bigger than you think it's going to be and it's probably going to fail.