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I had to perform some archaeology/investigation/surgery today. Digging up an ancient code base developed by people who quit two years ago, investigating it to figure out why it was so absolutely broken, and then surgically removing a dependency that stopped active development three years ago and finally started presenting issues recently.
I want to bomb the whole codebase and rewrite it because it sucks. I just don't have time for that, lol.
archeological work is painful and difficult
people in industry don't seem to emphasize/warn how much archeological work there is in being a code monkey
or are there jobs that don't involve it? i imagine the skill remains essential
greenfield work to be the exception not the norm, and start up life is hell and a gamble
interview process seems to completely disregard this, as i imagine it'd be difficult to assess, unlike leetcoding linked lists or code golfing stuff without using data structures, or whatever awful things they ask for in leetcode hards or whatever
rant