Season 1
Episode 5
January 2, 2026
Forbidden Legacy [Code] | Engineers in the Wild
Episode Overview
Legacy code isn’t just old—it’s cursed. And still, no one wants to delete it.
Transcript
Buried beneath layers of abstraction lies legacy code—mysterious, brittle, and somehow still mission-critical. This episode investigates why engineers continue to maintain these relics.
HOST
Wendy Hurst
It’s not spaghetti code. It’s heritage.
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