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Re:Ask HN: How to be productive with big existing code base by jamesmus on Thursday February 28, 2019 @03:11AM (#19269835)
Definitely. "Is it good enough for the business?". If yes, then leave it alone. Try to add new features in a safe way with automated tests.

I once worked a contract where it was expressly forbidden by the dev manager to refactor any code unless it was demonstrably necessary to support a new feature. Not much fun for devs at times but I respect the reasons behind the decision (esp. as it was a derivatives trading platfom and it can get pretty expensive pretty quickly when they go wrong).

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