Sometimes you have to re-evaluate decisions you made 5 years (or 5 months!) ago in your codebase. Robby Russell discusses this with Quincy on the freeCodeCamp podcast.

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Technical decisions made years ago may no longer be optimal. Automated tests help document requirements and free mental overhead, but teams should periodically revisit old guardrails and workflows. New observability tools, instrumentation, and AI-assisted tooling may enable faster, lighter solutions — for example, reducing deploy times from 30 minutes to under 3 minutes.