That is a good point, but I do have the perspective you talk about. I started out at a web shop for 4 years, so I'd spend a lot of time in other peoples code. I then moved on to a nice little SaaS company with a 10 year old code base which had a bunch of legacy code that I had to deal with when first starting out. I had to pick up a variety of languages that I had not used professionally before. I have spent 4 years there and am leaving at the end of this week to start my first company.
But my belief is the same, the solution to the problems described in the article is time/experience, not the adoption of some pessimistic mindset. You will run into bugs when working in other peoples code, as a result you will learn not to make those mistakes. Over time you will get quicker at identifying similar bugs and will be able to resolve them quicker each time as well.
The most common answer to any CS question that you are asked in college is "It depends". So how do you resolve these nasty legacy code bugs? Well, it depends. Is this code reused a lot in other places? Is this critical functionality to the user? Once you determine how important the buggy code is, you can decide whether to solve it with a hack or a well thought out solution.
Don't sweat the bugs, don't become a Debby Downer, fix them as they rise, and keep building cool shit.
But my belief is the same, the solution to the problems described in the article is time/experience, not the adoption of some pessimistic mindset. You will run into bugs when working in other peoples code, as a result you will learn not to make those mistakes. Over time you will get quicker at identifying similar bugs and will be able to resolve them quicker each time as well.
The most common answer to any CS question that you are asked in college is "It depends". So how do you resolve these nasty legacy code bugs? Well, it depends. Is this code reused a lot in other places? Is this critical functionality to the user? Once you determine how important the buggy code is, you can decide whether to solve it with a hack or a well thought out solution.
Don't sweat the bugs, don't become a Debby Downer, fix them as they rise, and keep building cool shit.