Tag: #legacy-code
Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 2 posts
Reading What Others Wrote — Entering a Codebase and Reverse-Engineering an Undocumented System
Writing gets practiced under compulsion; reading does not. That asymmetry made reading the skill everyone performs daily and nobody trains, and now that generation is cheap it is the capability whose price rose fastest.
2026-08-15 · 6 min read #career#skills#code-reading#craft#legacy-codeWorking with Legacy Code — How to Change Old, Scary, Untested Code Without Fear ♪ Listenable
Legacy code is code without tests, and code you are afraid to touch. And everyone inherits it eventually. The dilemma where changing safely needs tests but adding tests needs changes, characterization tests that pin curr
2026-05-14 · 29 min read #legacy-code#refactoring#characterization-tests#strangler-fig#technical-debt