Most rewrites serve the engineer, not the business

Re:Most rewrites serve the engineer, not the business by hellisothers on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @04:23PM (#48752625)

Is this news to anybody? Feels like I should just point AI and several “foundations of software engineering” and have it churn out blog posts for each chapter.

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Re:Most rewrites serve the engineer, not the business by bbsnly on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @05:35PM (#48753457)

Despite it not being news for lots of people, I am always surprised how many actually still fall into the trap. Somehow, software engineers are very opinionated people, and opinions are often a reason to begin such a journey of rewriting a piece of software that needs no rewrite.

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Re:Most rewrites serve the engineer, not the business by jacinda on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @05:55PM (#48753645)

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1053/

Churning out the blog posts isn't a bad idea if it's true. Repetition isn't inherently bad.

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