TL; DR:

• You'll spend a lot of time on existing systems
• Existing != Only Bug Fixes
• Check out the livestream (or watch the recording) on Monday, November 17th at 7:00 PM Pacific!

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Greenfield Dreams

Every developer, at some point in their career, has imagined the thrill of starting something brand new.

• A clean slate.
• No legacy code.
• No half-baked patterns from someone long gone.
• Just you, your keyboard, maybe your favorite LLM and agent tools.
• ... And infinite potential.

Then reality hits.

You join a company, and instead of greenfield projects, you’re working in a massive, existing codebase. You’re reading other people’s code. You’re patching bugs, writing migrations, and adding features to systems you didn’t design.

Suddenly, you’re asking yourself: "Am I just maintaining and extending this existing system? Is this what software engineering really is?"