My experience has been, the next guy always thinks it's the last guy's fault. But actually the fault usually winds being that of the next guy - even when I was

My experience has been, the next guy always thinks it's the last guy's fault. But actually the fault usually winds being that of the next guy - even when I was the next guy. Programmers are impatient, we look at the code, the code looks terrible. We lay into with a hatchet and three days later, it works. But there's a very minor problem. You look at the problem, look at it again. Three more days and you've ripped out your code completely, done apologies to the ancestors of the last guy and finally his work and all the problem are solved. And the comment? The communication? No one read them, they made no sense. But once you complete the code, you realize no other comments could have sufficed.