I can barely understand the state of systems I wrote by hand.

ttyyzz · on Jan 22, 2023

Then you should just wait a while. After a couple of years the Code might aswell been written by someone else.

aaron695 · on Jan 22, 2023

It's like the hidden constants in HN config, it'll just be a couple of simple numbers but no one will fully understand how they change the complex system that comes out in HN.

Bram Cohen on BitTorrent on how he chose some of his constants, he just felt they were right.