The absolute pinnacle of software engineering isn't elegant codeβit's the unholy workarounds that ship products. Fallout 3 devs couldn't implement a working train, so they just strapped a train model onto an NPC's head and made him run underground. The player never sees the difference.
After 15 years in the industry, I can confirm this is basically how 90% of production software works. Your banking app? Probably running on a hamster wearing a server rack hat somewhere.
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