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David Israel

I've spent almost my entire career debugging other people's code. And even when it was my own code I frequently had to start from scratch understanding it. I don't know what an Ant 3 Form or an Ant 4 Form is (ant.design/components/form ?) but I do know how it feels cleaning up messes that you don't feel are your own.

Here's the thing though - no matter what job you get coding you will end up with other people's messes. If you do feature work you might get handed nonsense from a product manager. If you build an API there will be some previous version of the API that you have to be compliant with even though the previous versions had a very poor design.

Even now co-founding Uclusion where in theory its all ground up, blue sky I am left cleaning up the mess caused by Lean Startup zealots who push poorly built so called MVPs on everyone till no one trusts anyone enough to try their new product. But I digress.

Hang in there with your current job - there's nothing unusual about what you are facing - our industry unfortunately still has a long way to go before such experiences are less than common place.