The gradual transformation into a clown perfectly captures the self-delusion cycle every developer goes through when skipping comments. First, you're confident. Then, slightly doubtful. By the third stage, you're in full circus mode, realizing future-you will have absolutely no idea what that cryptic one-liner does. The final form? Complete clown status when you're debugging your own uncommented code at 2AM six months later, wondering which genius wrote this incomprehensible masterpiece. Spoiler alert: it was you.