Charity Majors: code is now disposable, so engineering discipline matters more, not less (charitydotwtf.substack.com)
Her claim is blunt: code is now a materialized view of understanding, useful while current and disposable when stale, the same way servers became cattle instead of pets. The resistance to throwing it away, she says, is an evaluation problem, not a code problem.
Not everyone in the thread bought it. Several read it as a meandering restatement of an old truth, and one engineer pointed out the new pain: with every coworker now filing polished PRs, it's suddenly impossible to tell who actually understands the system.
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