How do I explain to a client that it will just be cheaper to throw away all of his shitty code and start anew?
Dr. Quadragon ❌
How do I explain to a client that it will just be cheaper to throw away all of his shitty code and start anew? 4 comments
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He has spent 15 years writing the shittiest PHP in the entire existence thinking he's doing development and puts a lot of sentimental value on it. He gets very emotional when I tell him that at this point the project is unmanageable, a lot of it has enormously stupid security issues like unescaped SQL queries, entire parts of it are physically unable to run because they are ridddled with errors, that copying and pasting stuff 16 times is not how you do programming, the structure is nonexistent, and with this level and amount of problems we'll spend more time fixing all this crap than rewrite this from the ground-up.
Talk about sunk cost fallacy.
He has spent 15 years writing the shittiest PHP in the entire existence thinking he's doing development and puts a lot of sentimental value on it. He gets very emotional when I tell him that at this point the project is unmanageable, a lot of it has enormously stupid security issues like unescaped SQL queries, entire parts of it are physically unable to run because they are ridddled with errors, that copying and pasting stuff 16 times is not how you do programming, the structure is nonexistent, and...