> bad quality of your code from N years ago

> Do a top-notch job on all my code

If you're like most above-average programmers, you constantly evolve. Your code from N years ago should look worse than the code you write today, otherwise you're not really improving are you?

So you completely missed the initial point made by FartyMcFarter, that old code looks worse than what you write today and people might judge you for it.