Ask HN: How often you have the occasion to see bad written code.

I see bad code all the time. Some of it is even worse than my own.<p>I might have laughed or exclaimed WTF? or such once. When I was young and green.<p>Now I am just sadly empty.

"Any code not written by me is bad code, And if i do write bad code i make it sure never to look at it again" ---

Every line of code that I've written in a language other than C or x86/amd64 assembly makes me laugh in retrospect. Maybe because every day I learn about new features in other languages (for example, today I found out about collections.defaultdict, which would easily have saved me about 100 lines of code across all of my scripts)

I have been programming professionally for about 5 years now. So I would say every (working) day for the past 5 years.

Whenever I'm frustrated with something, bad code just appears on my screen.

About as often as I see badly written questions.

Every day. My current job involves integrating an old thrown-together system with a very old thrown-together system.

Go to just about any programming language tutorial site, you will most likely see bad code.