> For the coders here, you must have hit code bases where you see a function and know who on your team wrote it
Thank you for the analogy, I was thinking precisely that.
Something that would sometimes grate me is working on a project where you could "feel" that several people had contributed to it over time and had not understood the "spirit" of what previous authors were trying to achieve. Have you experienced something like that in your own work? Having the sense that what you are working on is a pastiche aggregated over time by an unwitting committee of tired workers?