Another good read from @randyau.com. I really like his framing on how to approach the inheritance of an old data pipeline.
Asking questions first aligned with my thought process. The analogy of 'just patch a car enough to run' to 'just get the code running and fix it later' also resonated. #dataBS
Collin Berke
This week on Counting Stuff, some... advice? explanation? of why grizzled data folks tend to ask "wtf is this?" when asked to revive an old data pipeline instead of just diving straight into the code, and that's even w/ LLMs to explain the code itself #dataBS
www.counting-stuff.com/so-youve-bee...
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When asked to take over a data pipeline, things are never as easy as "just looking at the code"
