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Single-digit million lines of code (~5M, let’s say)

Somewhere between 100 and 1000 engineers working on the same codebase

The first working version of the codebase is at least ten years old

All of these things, or any of them?

In any event, though I agree with him about the importance of consistency, I think he's way off base about why and where it's important. You might as well never improve anything with the mentality he brings here.



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