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Joel Spolsky criticized the tear-down-and-rebuild approach in his article "Things You Should Never Do," primarily targeting large and complex systems.

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The Tech Debt Rewrite Trap: Why Starting from Scratch Usually Backfires

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VerifiedJoel Spolsky is the co-founder of Stack Overflow; in his essay 'Things You Should Never Do' published in 2000, he argued that rewriting code from scratch is the single worst strategic mistake a software company can make.77% similar

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