In many cases, I had to step into an Augean stable of code, i.e. a 10x dev had to deep dive into code produced by 10 1x dev. Coming out the other end, functiona

In many cases, I had to step into an Augean stable of code, i.e. a 10x dev had to deep dive into code produced by 10 1x dev. Coming out the other end, functionality went up by 50% with 40% less code. Prior to being downsized at a multinational, I was asked to explain my database update scripts to a lady who had never seen SQL. Some of the queries took most of a page. That system slowly sank into the sunset. It's hard to do customer support when the database doesn't know about their new machines.