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A little self-accusation

I want to accuse someone for writing bad code. This person has written lots of crap for about 7-8 years. Little time went into refactoring and even less into automated tests. When I look at his code my first thought is “what the hell was this guy thinking?”. In many cases his approach to software design has proven to be harmful for me. For example, when forced to fix a bug that was introduced by my bugfix because I did not understand the code well enough.