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Code Is Debt

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118 points tornikeo | 1 comments | 31 Aug 25 17:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.375s | source
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c54 ◴[31 Aug 25 21:15 UTC] No.45087159[source]▶
I've been at companies where the company itself has no code assets but depends on a bunch of 3rd party enterprise services to run the core business. Brings up the question of how to measure how much code you have: if you depend on a legacy saas provider, do their lines of code count as your liability?
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1. danpalmer ◴[01 Sep 25 00:44 UTC] No.45088397[source]▶
Absolutely, came here to say this.

At a previous place we used a dreadful email marketing SaaS tool and it caused us no end of fire-fighting, even though we probably only had 500 lines of integration code. We ended up rewriting the functionality we needed and bringing it in-house and saved a ton of pain and money, and added ~3k lines.