{
  "id": 6021378,
  "title": "There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/06/theres-no-limit-to-how-bad-code-can-get-6021378",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-06T09:08:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Simon Willison",
    "slug": "simon-willison",
    "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/6/theres-no-limit-to-how-bad-code-can-get/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "My comment on There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get — Lobste.rs. [In reply to a comment about burning it down to start from scratch when technical debt becomes overwhelming] In my experience it's so rare for that to work. You announce the old thing is irrecoverably drowning in tech debt. You spin up a team to rewrite it from scratch. Work begins. Meanwhile the old thing remains a moving…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Hacker News",
        "title": "There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/05/theres-no-limit-to-how-bad-code-can-get",
        "published": "2026-09-05T14:13:22.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}