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Discussion on: How does flimsy code affect your mental health?

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Stephen Brown

Flimsy is a very polite adjective to be using for the mess of code I had to recently clean. The impact on my health was severe. The main frustration for me lay in the fact the last person to leave the project as it was should have known better. He had all the experience and skills. Instead of organising and leading, he was lazy - he dithered, he wrote obscure (and obnoxious) bits of code, and for good measure littered hacks around the place (the pernicious impact of which was real but difficult to track).