Comment by lurking_swe

greenfield development is also the “easiest” and most fun part of software development. As the famous saying goes, the last 10% of the project takes 90% of the time lol.

I’ve also noticed that, generally, nobody likes maintaining old systems.

so where does this leave us as software engineers? Should I be excited that it’s easy to spin up a bunch of code that I don’t deeply understand at the beginning of my project, while removing the fun parts of the project?

I’m still grappling with what this means for our industry in 5-10 years…