I’ve seen this play out so many times I’m tired of it. New team member joins. Super “productive”, rewrites enormous chunks of existing code and builds six new t

I’ve seen this play out so many times I’m tired of it. New team member joins. Super “productive”, rewrites enormous chunks of existing code and builds six new things. Great. Then they leave, and you find out the bits they rewrote were the carefully crafted and well documented protobuf APIs now replaced by ad hoc JSON where the parsing and spec are strewn across thirty places. The new projects you quickly realize make no sense whatsoever and don’t actually do the things they were supposed to do, but kind of look like it if you aren’t paying too close attention. Now they’re a “senior engineer” at the next company.