The Hermit Crab Method

or: declare technical bankruptcy, it's cheaper now A snail secretes its shell from its own body. Shell and flesh are fused. It grows by accretion, layer on layer, and it can never leave. If the shell cracks, the snail is in trouble, because the shell is the snail. That's your legacy codebase. That's the ten-year-old payments system where the spec isn't written down anywhere because the spec is…