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Re:Sick of these startup executives, painting a rosy picture... by rchaves on Saturday April 03, 2021 @09:12AM (#26680786)
Actually you are more likely to rewrite and migrate away from that legacy codebase once you succeed/pivot

I recommend watching Kent Back’s 3X talk for that, I also wrote a blogpost about it: https://rchavesferna.medium.com/designed-v-evolutionary-code...

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Re:Sick of these startup executives, painting a rosy picture... by danjac on Saturday April 03, 2021 @09:24AM (#26680838)
In theory yes, you're supposed to migrate away from the legacy codebase.

In practice I've never, ever, ever seen that happen: it's too much upfront cost to start over, especially when you have real customers and real data on top of it and you need to keep pumping out new features.

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