The eternal battle between code quality and functionality in one perfect Pirates of the Caribbean moment. Naval officer says your code is garbage, but Jack Sparrow hits back with the only metric that truly matters in crunch time - "but it does run." It's the digital equivalent of duct-taping a critical system together five minutes before the demo. Sure, it might be held together by Stack Overflow snippets and prayers, but if it compiles and doesn't immediately crash, that's practically a five-star review in desperate times.