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Not just IBM. A few years back I worked on a large project with one of the big international consulting companies as the prime contractor. They threw a party
by patrickmay 3y ago
Not just IBM. A few years back I worked on a large project with one of the big international consulting companies as the prime contractor. They threw a party for the whole team when the codebase hit one million lines of code.
Those of us who knew better treated the "celebration" as a wake.
- pixl97 3y agoIt's terrifying working around fintec and seeing how many 20MLOC monoliths are laying around and the code quality issues that crop up in them.
- helpmefindpurp 3y agoThis is cope. those applications are there because they work. Mistakes in "20M LOC monoliths" are exceedingly rare in the financial world. Look how bad "hipster" software is in comparison! Billions in profit means billions in quality
- Double_a_92 3y agoThe problem is not that they don't work, it's that they can't ever be touched again because it's impossible for anything to understand the code.
- helpmefindpurp 3y agoThe people looking at them just lack the skills...