That did fleetingly cross my mind as I was writing it. And yeah, I suspect I may have done that a couple of times - taking over someone else's codebase is not unlike watching the pilot parachute out of a flying plane with a "it's all yours now". Sometimes you have wings and engines and radio, sometimes the port wing is on upside down but the joystick is jammed starbd so it's all ok. But you really need to know that as the pilot jumps.
All in all, I think understanding someone else's codebase is like taking over writing a novel halfway through. It's why we all like a rewrite.
(And maybe why film scripts sometimes fell like they were written by committee)
That did fleetingly cross my mind as I was writing it. And yeah, I suspect I may have done that a couple of times - taking over someone else's codebase is not unlike watching the pilot parachute out of a flying plane with a "it's all yours now". Sometimes you have wings and engines and radio, sometimes the port wing is on upside down but the joystick is jammed starbd so it's all ok. But you really need to know that as the pilot jumps.
All in all, I think understanding someone else's codebase is like taking over writing a novel halfway through. It's why we all like a rewrite.
(And maybe why film scripts sometimes fell like they were written by committee)