> How often do you look at some code and think "an idiot wrote this", and then realise you're looking at your own code?

Actually when I have to modify my old codebase I am usually pleasantly surprised and it is much more tidy than I am expecting it to be. It's an amazing feeling when you read your own code and go "wow, I wrote that, what a nice way of doing that".

I am not really sure what that says about me... maybe my expectations are too pessimistic on average...