At Least The Motive Was Good

Technical debt Refactoring Software development Legacy code Code maintenance Spaghetti code Production bugs Dependency hell System crash

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At Least The Motive Was Good

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Started the day thinking "I'll just clean up this one messy function" and ended it frantically restoring from backups. The classic developer hubris—thinking you can touch that ancient code that's somehow holding the entire infrastructure together. It's like trying to remove one Jenga piece and watching the whole tower collapse. Next time I'll just pretend I didn't see that 200-line monstrosity with seven nested if-statements. Some technical debt is actually structural support.

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