Long-term code maintenance (Go Time #264)
Ole Bulbuk & Sandor Szücs join Natalie to discuss the ins & outs of long-term code maintenance. What does it take to maintain a codebase for a decade or more? How do you plan for that? What about inheriting a codebase for the long term? Oh, and (how) can AI help?
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- 0:00 It's Go Time!
- 0:50 Welcoming Ole & Sandor
- 2:55 Experience with other languages
- 4:29 On the Ship of Theseus
- 8:58 Inheriting & maintaining old codebases
- 13:51 Biggest problems for long-term maintainance
- 15:43 On product-driven development
- 19:14 Ole's approach to software development
- 21:38 A better approach than TDD?
- 24:27 Planning for long-term maintainability
- 32:22 Improving test coverage
- 33:38 Sandor on cleanroom implementation
- 36:25 How can AI help with maintainability?
- 37:25 It's time for Unpopular Opinions!
- 37:57 Sandor's unpop
- 39:38 Ole's unpop
- 41:35 Natalie's unpop
- 42:34 Time to Go!
- 42:55 Outro
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