I dunno what your experience is like, but I have seen this scenario repeat itself many many times in many places: someone is rewriting something without fully understanding what the old thing did, blindly proclaiming that their rewrite won't have any of the problems of that old clunky thing, introducing new bugs and limitations in the process without adequately solving the problem the old thing was addressing.
All. The. Fucking. Time. Big companies are especially bad at this.
Seems to be a variant of the phenomenon second system syndrome is meant to describe.
> I dunno what your experience is like, but I have seen this scenario repeat itself many many times in many places: someone is rewriting something without fully understanding what the old thing did, blindly proclaiming that their rewrite won't have any of the problems of that old clunky thing, introducing new bugs and limitations in the process without adequately solving the problem the old thing was addressing.
That's not Second System Syndrome. That's Joel Spolsky's The Thing You Should Never Do.
I dunno what your experience is like, but I have seen this scenario repeat itself many many times in many places: someone is rewriting something without fully understanding what the old thing did, blindly proclaiming that their rewrite won't have any of the problems of that old clunky thing, introducing new bugs and limitations in the process without adequately solving the problem the old thing was addressing.
All. The. Fucking. Time. Big companies are especially bad at this.
Seems to be a variant of the phenomenon second system syndrome is meant to describe.