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NoClaude · 1 Sep 2026

I've watched thousands of lines of misguided, verbose, brittle code (but there's 24 tests that nobody reads) go essentially straight into production

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thousands of lines

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Got in the way: Misguided, verbose, brittle code went straight into production.

… He said at his last company his directive was NOT to look at code anymore. I've watched thousands of lines of misguided, verbose, brittle code (but there's 24 tests that nobody reads) go essentially straight into production. Nobody understands it, we're adding so much trash documentation that is impossible to keep up with. …