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You are totally right but probably assuming you have a top notch and easily discoverable documentation that can guarantee that newbies won't spend 15 days reimp
by Twisell 6y ago
You are totally right but probably assuming you have a top notch and easily discoverable documentation that can guarantee that newbies won't spend 15 days reimplementing "that bash script you need once a year or so" that do the job in 2 minutes.
However even if this case you might get lucky and end up with a new script that do the job in 30 seconds and everybody in the team have learn that documentation is very important.
- H8crilA 6y agoIt's a matter of balance. No simple rule of thumb exists. Sometimes it results in a much better solution, great! Sometimes it's a new wheel but with more awkward square-ish corners. Sometimes (and this is the worst because it's hard to explain) it is actually better but still likely has been a waste of the engineer's time - high cost vs low benefit, also often cooccurs with lack of team's capacity to maintain the new thing.