The Anti-Legacy Manifesto: Writing Code That Lasts

As a junior engineer, I had that classic arrogance many of us start with - spitting at any code I hadn't written myself. I'd scroll through the codebase, commenting about the "idiots" who'd created this "legacy mess" I now had to maintain. The complaints about fixing someone else's mistakes were constant. I was young, overconfident, and utterly wrong. This reality check came while working for a…