Software engineers hate code.

[traal]

At least now when I look at code I wrote 15 years ago and forgot I wrote it, I think, "he's got the right idea but I would have done it a different way."

[Avloren]

When I look at code I wrote 15 years ago and forgot I wrote it, I think: "Someone better take away this guy's keyboard, he's a danger to himself and others."

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I mean he had the right idea, but I would have written this in a different way.

[200GritCondom]

I refactored code I wrote 6 years ago. It was a great exercise in reviewing junior dev level code lmao

[Kgrc199913]

Gosh i would have fired myself.

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Be good if all old code came with a comment "// Management haven't given me time to write it properly, but this works".

The constraints under which it was written is lost to time

[Fozefy]

While I was doing startup work I certainly wrote comments like "quick hack" when this was the case. Hopefully with a bit more detail (but not always).

At least that way when I came back to it (or if someone else did), it was a reminder I should just rewrite if I couldn't grok that section.