The death of 1000 cuts - the code base that has had corners cut 1000 times, each time getting progressively worse and worse, until it's so fragile, that even ti

The death of 1000 cuts - the code base that has had corners cut 1000 times, each time getting progressively worse and worse, until it's so fragile, that even tiny modifications have drastic and unpredictable outcomes. Global state being modified by race conditions. Over abstractions doing nothing but piling on the call stack. Interfaces ill defined and so there's lots of type casting and copying. Shudder