Poor Kids Thrown Into The Legacy Code Abyss

Legacy code Interns Spaghetti code Technical debt Code maintenance bugs Programming nightmares Developer struggles

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Poor Kids Thrown Into The Legacy Code Abyss

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Oh. My. GOD. The absolute CRUELTY of throwing an innocent intern into the bottomless pit of legacy code! Look at that poor child sobbing over his spaghetti - LITERALLY what it feels like when you're staring at 10,000 lines of uncommented code written by some developer who left the company in 2007! The intern's tears are basically the universal debugging fluid at this point. That face is EXACTLY what happens when you realize the bug you're fixing is actually holding the entire application together like some kind of cursed load-bearing glitch. Whoever did this to the intern deserves to maintain a COBOL application with zero documentation for all eternity!

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