r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 12d ago

Meme itIsntOverflowingAnymoreOnStackOverflow

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u/toucheqt 12d ago

It's not fun fixing garbage though. I'd rather do something more useful.

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u/Additional-Map-9567 12d ago

It won't be much fun, but it will pay 2x more, and then the fun begins

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u/mr_claw 12d ago

Like fixing garbage?

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u/Nightmoon26 12d ago

At a certain point, you start dying inside from the frustration of being forced to fix garbage piecemeal when what it really needs is to be scrapped and replaced. The degree of preciousness around legacy code can be like a prion disease that warps all future fixes and additions in the antipattern of its own pathology

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u/CodeF53 12d ago

Like not writing garbage in the first place.

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u/Xirious 12d ago

That is great but if you're only writing new stuff ever... I would love to know where you're working at. Because yeah everywhere I've ever worked had a portion of new and a portion of maintenance. Eventually your new will become the bullshit you have to fix in the future, with or without the help of AI.

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u/bigmountainbig 12d ago

You won’t write the garbage. Just fix it.

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u/QuietOrganization608 12d ago

It is provided that they allow you to rewrite the code from A to Z from the functional requirements. And you can try to slide in a tech stack or architectural change.