The Urge Is So Real

The Urge Is So Real
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Production is on fire, users are screaming, and your manager is breathing down your neck about that critical bug. But wait—is that a nested if statement from 2018? Some variable names that make zero sense? A function that's doing seventeen things at once?

Every developer knows that moment when you open a file to fix one tiny bug and suddenly you're possessed by the spirit of clean code. The rational part of your brain is yelling "JUST FIX THE BUG AND GET OUT" but your fingers are already typing "git checkout -b refactor/everything-because-i-have-no-self-control".

Spoiler alert: you're gonna hit that refactor button, spend 4 hours renaming variables and extracting functions, accidentally break three other things, and then sheepishly revert everything at 6 PM. We've all been there. Some of us are still there.

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