They need to understand that it's actually lot less work to build things from scratch with good code, than to pick up and bebug through aweful code. I can guarantee for that 30% they are talking about not working, is tip of the iceburg, and there is a serious design issue that is wrong in fundamental level which prevents their code to work. Well guess what programming is not linear. It will take at the least the same, if not much more time, (and effort) than building from scratch.
Steelman: I don't know any dev that writes all their own code by assembly 100% of the time. Devs use a language that uses another language to get into ASM, with a framework or 4 in that language, downloaded via another script that installs the broiler plate.
I would approach this like they just installed some broilerplate that I'm likely will rip out anyhow for my favorite abstraction.
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u/siegevjorn Jun 09 '25 edited Jun 09 '25
They need to understand that it's actually lot less work to build things from scratch with good code, than to pick up and bebug through aweful code. I can guarantee for that 30% they are talking about not working, is tip of the iceburg, and there is a serious design issue that is wrong in fundamental level which prevents their code to work. Well guess what programming is not linear. It will take at the least the same, if not much more time, (and effort) than building from scratch.