"Greenfield" codebases don't really exist anymore. Let me explain: I get asked a lot: "do your skills work on greenfield codebases?" or "do they work on legacy codebases?" Greenfield vs Brownfield is a distinction that has never really felt real to me. - Greenfield: you are building new software from scratch - Brownfield: you are editing existing software The truth is that the green field that we imagine when we start out a new project is an illusion. We are not spitting out software into…