Dry principle Memes

Oh honey, someone out there really took "Don't Repeat Yourself" to a whole new level of chaos. We've got ONE light switch pulling double duty controlling BOTH the lights AND the elevator because apparently separating concerns is for people with actual budgets. Some architect somewhere was like "why waste money on two switches when we can create a beautiful nightmare?" Now you've got people trapped in darkness every time someone needs to go up a floor. It's giving "tightly coupled code" energy but in REAL LIFE. The building management really said "let's make everything depend on everything else" and called it efficiency. Somewhere, a software engineer is having flashbacks to that one function that does seventeen unrelated things because the original dev thought they were being clever.

Ah, the classic fork in the road that every developer faces roughly 37 times per day. To the left: the shining castle of clean code principles, with its DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) architecture and beautiful abstractions. To the right: the dark, ominous path with a simple "// TODO: refactor this ugly code in the future" comment that we all know will stay there until the heat death of the universe. The harsh reality? That right path is basically a developer shortcut paved with good intentions and broken dreams. We all swear we'll come back to fix it... right after this sprint... or the next one... or when pigs fly. Meanwhile, that technical debt grows like a cosmic horror, consuming all who dare maintain the codebase after you. Pro tip: If you choose the right path often enough, eventually your entire codebase becomes one giant TODO comment. Then you can just call it "job security" instead of "technical debt" and sleep soundly at night!