Best Advice For Every Programmer

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Best Advice For Every Programmer

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The universal law of programming nobody teaches in CS degrees: "If it works, don't touch it." That moment when your janky code with 17 nested if-statements and zero comments somehow passes all tests, and you back away from the keyboard like you're defusing a bomb. The code is held together by digital duct tape and prayers, but hey—ship it! Future you can deal with that technical debt... or better yet, whoever inherits your codebase after you've conveniently switched teams.

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