Nothing says "professional software engineering" quite like a TODO comment from 11 years ago that's still doing its job perfectly. That hardcoded price check for product ID 42? Still there. Still working. Still making $9.99 on whatever mystery product that is. The real comedy is discovering YOU were the idiot who wrote it. Past you slapped a "quick fix" on there with every intention of doing it properly later. But here's the thing: it works. And in software development, working code has the half-life of uranium-238. Nobody touches it. Nobody questions it. It just... persists. Meanwhile, the entire codebase has been migrated through Angular, React, Vue, and back to jQuery (because why not), survived a complete rewrite, and this little gem is still sitting there in class-checkout.php like a cockroach after nuclear winter. Temporary? That word has lost all meaning. This is permanent infrastructure now.