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ElijahLynntoday at 7:54 PM1 replyview on HN

I read a quote from somebody in the industry recently that stuck. I don't remember who it was.

"Writing software is easy, changing it is hard."


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ryandvmtoday at 7:59 PM

Absolutely true. Especially so with poorly abstracted software design.

This is why so many new teams' first order of business is invariably a suggestion to "rewrite everything".

They're not going to do a better job or get a better product, it's just the only way they're going to get a software stack that does what they want.