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Hacker News |Technology |Sep 05, 2026

The endless decline of bad code: Why software metaphors miss the mark

A common metaphor comparing deteriorating codebases to sinking ships or collapsing buildings was argued to be misleading. The author suggested that such imagery implies an inevitable endpoint, while software quality can degrade infinitely without a…

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