Can pinpoint the exact error but still makes me fix it

The classic "it works but I have no idea why" scenario. Your code's like that bird—technically flying, but in the most chaotic, physics-defying way possible. After 15 years of coding, I've learned the sacred rule: when something works through pure accident rather than design, you just back away slowly and leave it alone. Ship it. Document it as "proprietary algorithm" and never speak of it again. The right side is what happens when you try to "clean up" that spaghetti code that was somehow working.

Content C DEV Who are you? SEGMENTATION FAULT (CORE DUMPED) CDEV Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down? imgfig.com

Content developers I just wanna ship my product I know my nodejs backend isn't good enough, but. infrastructure engineers you guys are idiots I hate all of you whoops, junior dev just deployed to production without testing. guess who's not getting help fixing their outage project manager, I will not join your hour long standup. Fill out a ticket like everyone else and GTFO

Content My code is working Let me refactor it 258 Bugs Found Dying inside

That first hit of AI-generated code feels like pure magic. "Look at all this productivity!" Then reality sets in. What AI gives you in quantity, you pay back with interest in quality control. Sure, it wrote 10,000 lines in minutes, but now you're the poor soul who has to untangle that algorithmic spaghetti, patch the security holes big enough to drive a truck through, and explain to management why the project timeline just went from "done" to "we're just getting started." The hidden tax of instant code is always paid in developer tears.

The silent killer of build systems: auto-detected indentation. One developer uses tabs, another uses spaces, and suddenly your Makefile implodes because it requires exact tab characters for rules. The editor helpfully "fixed" your indentation and now your CI pipeline is a burning building behind you while you smile, knowing exactly who to blame. Nothing says "welcome to dependency hell" like watching four months of work collapse because someone's IDE thought it knew better than GNU Make's 1976 tab requirement.