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How do you take over someone else's code?
Inheriting a codebase nobody documented. How a takeover actually works, what gets assessed first, and why a rewrite is usually the wrong instinct.
Inheriting a codebase nobody documented. How a takeover actually works, what gets assessed first, and why a rewrite is usually the wrong instinct.
The person who understood your system is gone. What actually breaks, what it costs to recover, and how to take ownership back without a rewrite.