There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get

6th September 2026 Comment My comment on There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get — Lobste.rs [In reply to a comment about burning it down to start from scratch when technical debt becomes overwhelming] In my experience it's so rare for that to work. You announce the old thing is irrecoverably drowning in tech debt. You spin up a team to rewrite it from scratch. Work begins. Meanwhile the old thin