This is something that can I cannot stress the importance of, yet rarely ever receives the recognition that it should. Being able to delicately and compassionstely work on old code, while still bringing valuable updates is hard.
It’s even harder to make your changes look easy and obvious in hindsight.
This is something that most engineering organizations are not equipped to recognize and promote as a virtue - it’s sort of hard to explain as it is. If anything, this patience can be considered an enemy to progress.
It’s even harder to make your changes look easy and obvious in hindsight.
This is something that most engineering organizations are not equipped to recognize and promote as a virtue - it’s sort of hard to explain as it is. If anything, this patience can be considered an enemy to progress.
When you see people who do this well, take note.