meh. i work at a small shop. most of the code i see that sucks was written by competent programmers under high schedule pressure. the code is clearly not well understood anymore, but if you trace the history you can see it's due to a few years of tacking on features as quickly as possible. the technical debt surely slows us down sometimes, but hey that was a business decision, maybe even a correct one! core business functionality is rock solid, its mostly UI code that sucks.
I wonder what the average startup codebase looks like?
I wonder what the average startup codebase looks like?