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Programmer HumorHey Boss, look here!
I made a magical X-ray app that displays our code as wiring.
Here is the shiny, neat program that Bob wrote 15 years ago, right before he left us:
And here is what it is today, after Tom took it from Bob, and Jane from Tom, and Mick from Jane, and me from him, porting it to roughly four new platforms, and adding about 240 features from customer requests (150 of which were urgent):
Problem is that now your boss is just going to say Claude can trace those wires for you.
Claude will remove everything for you. Can’t have technical debt if there’s no code.
New Clod same as the old Clod.
Thing is, if they would give Mick and Jane enough time with Claude, they could make it look like Bob's work again, but it would still take time - and tokens too.
As someone who has managed racks, that first picture isn’t usable after day 1.
There’s not place for extra cable length to go.
Zip ties?!? I’d make you cut every one of those out.
Every cable needs to be tied down.
Cable tracing requires cutting.
There’s no service loops.
I'm a developer who occasionally is the 'smart hands' (for our networks team) for some equipment in our office.
Fortunately ours is all Velcro tied so tidily adding an extra cable was awkward but ultimately trivial.
So, please educate a novice who wants to do right: what do you mean by every cable needs to be tied down? You mean individually?
In the 1st photo adding any cable would mean zip tying it down individually.
Tightly bound cables/wiring is my pet hate. Even if there's room to add stuff it makes tracing anything a nightmare.
I would absolutely prefer to trace something in the second pic.
to me, it matters if its backplane or frontend patchwork. just my 2 cents
Cable porn vs cable gore
Time to get out the old tone generator.
