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Re:How Do You Know a Developer Is Doing a Good Job? by crdoconnor on Saturday February 11, 2017 @06:49PM (#13625615)
Cleaning up existing code will make it easier to alter designs later and that's something you should continually be doing as you implement features and fix bugs, but that's not pre-emptive architecture.
Re:How Do You Know a Developer Is Doing a Good Job? by Nomentatus on Sunday February 12, 2017 @11:51PM (#13633199)
As I say elsewhere here, I've killed projects assuming that. Pulling out bricks from the bottom and replacing them is sometimes so hard, you really have a dead project.