Don't Ask A Programmer For Their Code

You know those innocent questions society says you should never ask? Yeah, well programmers have their own forbidden territory, and it's asking them to explain code they wrote three weeks ago after coming back from vacation. The sheer HORROR on that programmer's face says it all—like they're staring into the abyss of their own spaghetti code, wondering "who wrote this garbage?" only to realize... it was them. Past-you was apparently feeling chaotic and left zero comments, variable names like 'x1' and 'temp2', and logic so convoluted it would make a pretzel jealous. Coming back to your own code after a break is basically archaeological excavation, except instead of discovering ancient civilizations, you're discovering your own crimes against readability.