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bigiaintoday at 2:40 AM3 repliesview on HN

One rebuttal to that is that with the benefit of hindsight, to a first approximation zero percent of the code I've written in my career turned out to be "of any significance" really.


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marcus_holmestoday at 3:57 AM

Same. That line about "your legacy is your family and friends" hit hard.

I've been coding professionally for >30 years. I don't think any of my code has survived 5 years in production.

I don't think code quality affected that at all - I know the really, really, shitty code I wrote when learning OOP in the 90's survived for a looong time, while the amazing code I wrote for a startup 2018-2021 died with it.

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YZFtoday at 5:03 AM

Most code I wrote over my career got pretty decent use and produced value for customers. Some was used by millions of people. What I work on today is used by thousands. It's important that it is of reasonable quality with less bugs, decent performance, functionality users are looking for etc.

A lot of code makes a difference but I guess there's a lot that doesn't?

blast0fftoday at 3:02 AM

Please elaborate

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