But It Does Run

Technical debt Legacy code Spaghetti code Code review Code quality Defensive programming It works on my machine Pirates of the caribbean

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But It Does Run

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The naval officer delivers a devastating code review while Captain Jack Sparrow responds with the programmer's ultimate defense mechanism: "But it does run."

Nothing captures the essence of desperate programming quite like defending your monstrosity of spaghetti code that somehow—against all laws of computer science—actually executes. Sure, it might have the structural integrity of a house of cards in a hurricane, but hey, green checkmarks all around!

That moment when your technical debt is visible from space, but you're still clinging to the bare minimum requirement of "it works." This is why we can't have nice things in production.

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