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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
raganwald@social.bau-ha.us ("Reginald Braithwaite") wrote:
“Code is not an infinitely reproducible machine that requires no labor inputs to operate. Rather, it is a brittle machine that requires increasingly heroic measures to keep it in good working order, and which eventually does "wear out" (in the sense of needing a top-to-bottom refactoring).”
— @pluralistic, https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/#graceful-failure-modes
The myth that "old code doesn't rust" persists because it justifies moving fast, breaking things, and leaving it for someone else to clean up the mess.
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