We re-released the product to this group. It consisted of 10% of Rick’s original code which was pretty stable. It also had a few thousand lines of new code to replace about 150,000 lines of incomprehensible mess. The team had replaced five years of work in about six months. Over the next few months we expanded from pilot to full customer release.

Up next: Manager on Medium bragging that he or she would be able to type out all ~1 000 000 words in the Harry Potter series in a couple hundred hours.