Vibe code is legacy code(blog.val.town)
653 points by simonw | 381 comments
Val Town blog post by Steve Krouse arguing that vibe-coded software, where developers ignore the code, is effectively legacy code nobody understands.
#legacy-code on Hacker News
6 stories tagged legacy-code, newest first.
You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023)(infobip.com)
731 points by tonkkatonka | 399 comments
Infobip developer blog post arguing that working on a legacy project is a necessary experience for becoming a senior software engineer.
Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases(seangoedecke.com)
695 points by BerislavLopac | 307 comments
Blog post by Sean Goedecke on common mistakes engineers make when working in large, decade-old codebases with hundreds of contributors.
"We ran out of columns"(jimmyhmiller.github.io)
1417 points by poidos | 504 comments
Jimmy Miller's blog post recounting stories from his first job's legacy codebase, including a merchants table that ran out of columns and spawned merchants2.
Man spends entire career mastering crappy codebase(taylor.town)
683 points by surprisetalk | 462 comments
A satirical blog post on taylor.town about a fictional developer who spent 35 years in a legacy medical software codebase and retires having grasped 4% of it.
My 20 year career is technical debt or deprecated(blog.visionarycto.com)
439 points by spo81rty | 442 comments
A Substack essay from The Visionary CTO reflecting on how all the code from the author's 20-year career has become technical debt or been deprecated.