if you take Michael Feather's definition of legacy code as "code without tests", it's probably the case that someone in your org is producing some new legacy co

if you take Michael Feather's definition of legacy code as "code without tests", it's probably the case that someone in your org is producing some new legacy code this week ;) on the other hand, sometimes in a startup-ish scenario it is optimal from a business perspective to bash out code to add features to drive revenue and worry about tech debt for the far future hypothetical scenario of the startup turning into a profitable business that can pay to bring people in to rewrite everything. that is, optimal in the sense of the alternative being slowly writing very well thought out and engineered code and running out of money before having enough customers to justify a longer-term engineering focus