Of the reasons he says engineers want to rewrite the code, he says: badly organized code, slow processing time, and ugly code. Maybe I’m not an engineer, becau

Of the reasons he says engineers want to rewrite the code, he says: badly organized code, slow processing time, and ugly code. Maybe I’m not an engineer, because I bet perfectly pretty fast code is an indicator you should reorganize it to make it easier to adapt, add more capabilities even if it runs slow, and put some ugly fixes in there so it’s useful for the end user. Agreed that wanting to over-engineer and perfect something that should be constantly evolving is not a good reason to rewrite it. That sounds like back office bubble pretend-work.