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points by manmal 3 days ago | 0 comments

That’s legacy code, not technical debt. BTW. If you leave the company, who will understand your code though? Institutional knowledge always fades away eventually.

[–] goda90 3 days ago

Technical debt is something that hinders the ability to understand the code and how changes will impact the code. A hypothetical technical debt-free piece of legacy code could be picked up by a new developer and they'd understand it perfectly after reading it.

[–] manmal 3 days ago

I haven’t seen such high quality, ever, in a production codebase.

[–] goda90 2 days ago

That's why I said hypothetical. But moving towards such a target is the goal of avoiding or paying off tech debt.