I read an interesting blog a while back with the premise that good software developers, working on new code, are always in maintenance mode. In otherwords, even for the code they just wrote last week (or last month...), they are continually revisiting and refactoring, etc. as the new development project progresses.
I thought I bookmarked this essay, but now I can't find it. I think it's pretty well known. Does this sound familiar to anyone and can you provide the link?