Most rewrites serve the engineer, not the business
- June 30, 2026 · 5 min read For a few weeks one summer I woke at 4am to rewrite code my employer had already paid someone to write.
- It ran in production every day, and it was built on CakePHP.
- I barely knew CakePHP, so every file looked wrong to me.
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- June 30, 2026 · 5 min read For a few weeks one summer I woke at 4am to rewrite code my employer had already paid someone to write.
- It ran in production every day, and it was built on CakePHP.
- I barely knew CakePHP, so every file looked wrong to me.
Sources: Anatoliybabushka