I tell my young developers - the primary goal in software engineering is maintainability. Code reuse, encapsulation, abstraction, and myriad other concepts all contribute to ease of maintaining source code over the long term. Maintainability allows for easier, predictable feature addition and removal, with fewer changes, and by different people. You're also a different person than the one you were months or years ago when it comes to software.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Did I already post in here about how he wrote a custom DSL instead of using the standard widely used ORM we use everywhere? Maintainability nightmare.

He doesn't work here anymore and now I have to either figure it out or rip it out. So far it looks like "rip it out" because it took less than an hour to swap in the orm, and now there's just a lot less code needed.