Future-proof Memes

Oh sure, let me just hardcode EVERY SINGLE YEAR until the heat death of the universe because that's definitely what "future proof" means! Nothing screams sustainable architecture like a 2000-line switch statement checking if it's 2020, 2021, 2022... The comment "add more years before 2028 release" is the cherry on top of this disaster sundae. Imagine being the poor soul who has to maintain this abomination in 2027, frantically adding year 2028 before the whole system implodes. Fun fact: leap year logic is literally just divisible by 4 (except centuries unless divisible by 400), but why use a simple algorithm when you can create a monument to technical debt instead? This is what happens when someone takes "explicit is better than implicit" a bit TOO literally.

When your senior dev says "future proof," they probably meant something about scalable architecture and maintainable design patterns. Instead, this developer took it literally and hardcoded every single year with individual if-else statements. The TODO comment "add more years before 2028 release" is the cherry on top—imagine the poor soul who has to maintain this in 2029, frantically adding else if (year == 2029) to the growing tower of conditional statements. Nothing says "job security" quite like code that requires manual updates every January 1st. At least leap year calculations will be consistent... until they're not. Y2K walked so this could run.