On one team, we had a lot of code that had been written hastily because we were OK with taking on technical debt in order to move more quickly. We'd reconsider

On one team, we had a lot of code that had been written hastily because we were OK with taking on technical debt in order to move more quickly. We'd reconsider old design decisions and blame "old $me". It was all done in good fun, and I was happy to take the blame as senior engineer.