Not specifically for this blog post, but this is more common than it should be, and it's a symptom of organizational failure most of the time. Either the code

Not specifically for this blog post, but this is more common than it should be, and it's a symptom of organizational failure most of the time. Either the code was merged without the people that would be directly impacted by it reviewing it, they had two teams touching the same code-path almost simultaneously and not talking to each other or some other lack of communication. Sometimes the person rewriting the code is simply cutting through the bullshit because they know the original committer simply sucks at their job and you can't do anything about it (yes, I've seen that before). Ultimately it could just be the guy being a jerk, but more often than not, it's not as simple as it seems.