No I said what I meant. Code is a liability, though to your point, code you don't understand is an even bigger liability.
Even if I understand all my code, when I go to make changes, if it's 100k lines of code vs 2k lines of code, it's going to take more time and be more error prone.
Even if I understand all my code, the intern I hired last week won't and I'll have to teach it to them.
Even if I understand all my code, I don't remember everything all the time and I can forget about an edge case handed in thousands of lines of code.
Even if I understand all my code, I don't understand my co-workers code, and they don't understand mine.
Even if I understand all my code, I might not want to work for this company the rest of my life.
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No I said what I meant. Code is a liability, though to your point, code you don't understand is an even bigger liability.
Even if I understand all my code, when I go to make changes, if it's 100k lines of code vs 2k lines of code, it's going to take more time and be more error prone.
Even if I understand all my code, the intern I hired last week won't and I'll have to teach it to them.
Even if I understand all my code, I don't remember everything all the time and I can forget about an edge case handed in thousands of lines of code.
Even if I understand all my code, I don't understand my co-workers code, and they don't understand mine.
Even if I understand all my code, I might not want to work for this company the rest of my life.