Judging code is important, but this article seems to be judging people too much. When I see unwieldy legacy code at Fitbit, I assume it was written by an overw

Judging code is important, but this article seems to be judging people too much. When I see unwieldy legacy code at Fitbit, I assume it was written by an overworked early employee wearing five different software-engineer hats, two of which they were experienced in. I assume they were working as fast as they could to get their startup to take off before the end of the runway, and that they anticipated having enough money to hire a team of people to clean things up later if they succeeded. They did succeed, and I'm part of the cleanup crew. See also http://retrospectivewiki.org/index.php?title=The_Prime_Directive http://retrospectivewiki.org/index.php?title=The_Prime_Direc...