Inherited a codebase with zero documentation, and the person who wrote it left six months ago. There's a script called 'final_final_v3_ACTUAL_USE_THIS.py' and I'm afraid to touch anything. How much technical debt is too much before it's better to rebuild?

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First off, it is code not data, so is there an LLM for approved in-house code explanation? Because undocumented code still likely has documented purposes and providing that context and the code base should be able to start to tell you something.

Haha oh no, and no comments to be found? Talk about bad practices

I once left a job but remained good friends with my manager, I left a lot of comments but most of them were things like, “work on this sh*t more later”

I forgot I did this but he told me it was hilarious

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