If It Works, Don't Touch It

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If It Works, Don't Touch It

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The first rule of production code: never mess with something that's running smoothly. The second rule? Bombard your non-working code with console.log() statements until you've extracted a full confession from every variable. It's not debugging—it's an interrogation. The code will talk eventually. They always do.

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