You know that senior dev who insisted on writing production code in Microsoft Word because "it has syntax highlighting if you squint hard enough"? Yeah, their decisions are now your problem. The parallel here is brutal: just like poor lifestyle choices during pregnancy can affect the child decades later, that cowboy coder who merged straight to main without tests in 2004 has cursed you with a codebase that imports time , datetime , AND requests in a file called utils.py that somehow controls the entire authentication system. The YouTube video claiming Word is the "best IDE for programming" is the cherry on top. Some sins echo through eternity, and using Word as an IDE is definitely one of them. The tech debt doesn't just compound—it metastasizes.