What Was The Craziest "If It Works, Don't Touch It" Projects Of Your Life

What Was The Craziest "If It Works, Don't Touch It" Projects Of Your Life
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You know that legacy codebase held together by duct tape, prayers, and a single try-catch block? Yeah, this is its physical manifestation. Someone's got a VGA-to-PS/2 adapter chained to what looks like a USB converter, all dangling precariously from the back of a machine that's probably running critical production systems.

The "there is always a WAY" caption captures that beautiful moment when you realize your Frankenstein solution actually works, and now you're too terrified to touch it. Nobody knows why it works. Nobody WANTS to know. The documentation is just a sticky note that says "DON'T UNPLUG."

It's been running for 847 days straight. The company's entire billing system depends on it. And if you breathe on it wrong, the whole thing collapses like a poorly written recursive function without a base case.

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