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A coworker swore my old code was 'fine' until it crashed the whole test environment
My teammate Dave kept telling me to stop refactoring the legacy SQL query because it 'worked well enough.' Last Tuesday it locked up our staging server in Seattle for 6 hours straight. Now I'm stuck rebuilding it from scratch while he acts like nothing happened. Has anyone else had a coworker insist their buggy code is totally good to go?
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laurabennett1mo ago
@noahclark but staging still costs time and trust... why wait for worse?
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noahclark1mo ago
Oh come on, are we really acting like a 6 hour staging crash is a disaster? Staging is literally the environment where stuff is supposed to break. I've seen production databases go down for whole weekends and the company still survived. Your coworker sounds annoying but maybe he has a point that the old code was fine for what it needed to do. How many times has your "refactored" code actually made things better vs introducing new problems? Sometimes working with the messy legacy stuff is just part of the job, not a moral failing.
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