The eternal battle between "clean code" zealots and the pragmatic hackers who actually ship features.
First panel: Someone proudly declares they like "clean code" - that magical unicorn every bootcamp graduate puts on their resume.
Second panel: Someone dares to ask what that actually means.
Third panel: "It means he's afraid of useful code" - the brutal truth bomb drops.
Fourth panel: The clean coder desperately denies it.
Final panels: And then we see the "scary" code - a fast inverse square root function that's actually efficient and solves a real problem, but doesn't follow the sacred "clean code" commandments. The horror!
Nothing strikes fear into the heart of a "clean code" purist like a function that prioritizes performance over readability. Meanwhile, the rest of us are just trying to make the damn thing work before the deadline.