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"Who is the idiot that wrote this code?" *gif* really did keep me from gaining too much of an ego early on in my software career. I urged my CS department chair to add a course in refactoring/updating/documenting existing code bases, as that's what most students would be doing upon graduation.

"I *am* the legacy system!"

"ok, but why is the system set up like this?" "Because 10 years ago I was the only person in the organisation who used it, I had no real instructions of what the boss wanted me to do with it, so I made it up as I went along"

I'm at 17 years at the same place and yeah. It's very annoying that all this shit code was written by me 15 years ago

Most definitely!

I’m still frustrated with the me from last week.

When I was managing a team and talking about a thing that was set up wrong I'd often start with "Some idiot, probably me,..." and then describe the problem. It made for great open communication and other people got comfortable with jumping in and owning things, talking about why they happened, etc.

Watched my senior engineer (we had both been there 8-9 years) come to me to ask if I remembered who worked on the code 6-7 years ago because he didn't understand why it was done the way it was, I had no idea, then had him come back the next day to tell me he realized he did it.

Classic scene in many restaurants I worked in “okay wtf who made this- ohfuckitsme”

"What kind of fucking idiot tho-... oh... right..." Past-me was a dumbass