First Rule

Legacy code Code maintenance Technical debt Workarounds Hacks Production code Software engineering Bug-fixes Refactoring

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First Rule

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Ah, the sacred commandment of code maintenance! This plumbing masterpiece perfectly captures that moment when you've cobbled together some unholy abomination of code that somehow—against all logic and reason—actually works. Sure, that pipe is leaking through a crack, but water's still flowing where it needs to go, right? Just like that legacy codebase held together by Stack Overflow snippets and prayers. Touch it to "improve" things and suddenly you've got 47 new bugs and a weekend of emergency hotfixes. The true mark of a senior developer isn't writing perfect code—it's knowing exactly which janky solutions to leave the hell alone.

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