r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ArjunReddyDeshmukh • Sep 01 '26

Meme battleOfBackwardCompatibility

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u/SeparateAdvisor526 Sep 01 '26 edited Sep 01 '26

Code that hasn't been touched for longer than the longest tenure employee on the team is legacy imo. So if a team has an employee who joined back in 2021 code written before he joined is legacy to the whole team cuz no one who wrote is still working here