According to our code-repository statistics, McEachen had written about half the code in the Adchemy codebase. As employee number eleven, he was that archetypal figure on every product team: the silverback, the neckbeard, the absolute expert who knew all the secret scripts that could be run, and where all the technical bodies were buried. And he was that person for just about every product the company had ever made, all the ill-conceived, disconnected, and random functionality that lay unwanted and unmonetized in hundreds of thousands of lines of code.
Not something to be proud of if you’re actually trying to build something to last. Retrospection may suggest doing otherwise, but wouldn’t want to confound with someone who exhibits this behavior.
