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No. Every boss who says "total rewrite" deserves the correspective of a punch in the face. It's like saying: what you engineers have done and I paid 44 billion
by lordkrandel 4y ago
No. Every boss who says "total rewrite" deserves the correspective of a punch in the face. It's like saying: what you engineers have done and I paid 44 billion dollars for, is worth nothing at all. It's worse than s* because at least that can be used at fuel. Musk is the jerk 100%
- residualmind 4y agoi dunno.. as an engineer, with every project i've jumped into, among of the first ideas to tackle code rot was usually a total rewrite of some key parts, agreed upon by all the other external engineers.. is it usually a good/practical idea? probably not, but if you have a huge piece of organically grown garbage, taking few steps back and entertaining the thought "how would we do it now, knowing what we know now (and what all these people have learned the hard way)", does not sound like the worst of ideas.
- residualmind 4y agoyou're familiar with tech debt, right? what if a board of engineers and not your supervillain says a rewrite is one of the things we can try to breathe some life into this