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Dr. Quadragon ❌

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.

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Jacob

@drq just be honest, either that happens and it's good, or you lose a terrible client.

I remember looking at a friend's family member's PHP site they had somebody build for them years before. The site should have been static. There were so many variables read directly from $GET...

Json Doh

@drq
> Talk about sunk cost fallacy.
That. But also the technical debt. Show them that refactoring from ground up cost will be lower than the current technical debt.

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