Christmas Gift

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Christmas Gift

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Kid wants a dragon for Christmas. Santa says "be realistic." Kid adjusts expectations: "I want bug-free, well documented, readable code." Santa, now sweating: "What color do you want your dragon?"

Because apparently mythical fire-breathing creatures are more achievable than code that actually makes sense six months later. Santa's been around for centuries and even he knows that clean, documented code is pure fantasy. The dragon is literally the easier ask here.

We've all inherited that 3000-line function with variable names like "x2" and "temp_final_REAL" with zero comments. At least with a dragon, you know what you're getting: teeth, wings, fire. With legacy code? Could be anything. Probably held together by a single regex that nobody dares to touch.

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