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		paulddraper on May 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My 20 year career is technical debt or deprecated 100% agree. But I like to think that ideas and solutions and products can be legacies. It's semi-uncommon to write code that legitimately lasts 5+ years. But it's very common to work on projects/products/companies that last 15+ years. And I have to be content with that.

cookieperson on May 16, 2023 [–]

Most code that survives 5 years survived for all the wrong reasons. That said, most code that's survived five years is often a profitable product with a reasonable human at the helm telling us needs to not to touch it

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