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But if you don’t blame them it can also backfire. I inherited a bad codebase once and tried my best to improve it. But there was only so much time. When I left the guy after me blamed me for the still bad parts immediately.

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Ah that reminds me of a classic Dilbert comic, The code mocking

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/195lc8/whe...

(Reddit, because Dilberts creator and his website have gone off the rails)

Better link: <https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/2013-02-24>

He would blamed your new code if you rewrote. People who blame are juniors. You are not really a senior if you blame.

Juniors blame. Seniors silently judge.

It's a proud tradition, to gasp silently, mutter in anger as you run git blame, and only discover that you're the person who wrote the code about 20% of the time.

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