What’s the “worst” codebase you’ve ever worked in? I oversee a handful of legacy of inherited services and am finding incremental ways to deprecate/sunset what I can. It has a ton of dead code but it isn’t even the worst I’ve seen. Projects with old libraries that aren’t supported, database layers woven in, and no linting/types.

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A so called internal product at there engineers doesn't even have coding standards, convention. When introducing new feature into the system they don't even care if it is a good way to do it even it violates the very S letter of SOLID principles.

Sounds too familiar. It’s more about what the smallest change you can make without breaking the metaphorical lop sided jenga

I've seen worse but the most frustrating are new projects where people are dead set on being clever. One that comes to mind is where someone tried defining the layout, display, and API of certain features of an application in the database layer, shepherding it through the backend and into the frontend. It's "dynamic", and "data driven", while simultaneously erasing all previously possible compile time checks and type safety guarantees. Give it 5 years and it will have grown to be more complex and worse maintained than the system it was meant to simplify. You can see the train wreck coming but you can't prevent it.

No you truly can’t prevent it. People hate having a hard time following the KISS principle

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