Why Deleting Unneeded Code Is a Senior Engineering SkillWhy Deleting Unneeded Code Is a Senior Engineering Skill
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Junior developers ask how to write the function. Senior developers ask whether the function should exist.
Half the codebases I've inherited have logic that technically works, solving a problem the business stopped caring about two reorgs ago. Nobody removed it because removing code feels riskier than adding it, even when the code is dead weight.
Deleting the right thing is underrated as an engineering skill.
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