If It Works Do Not Touch Anything

If It Works Do Not Touch Anything
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The sacred mantra of production code everywhere! Sure, your naval officer thinks your code is an unholy abomination that would make clean coders weep into their mechanical keyboards. But Captain Jack has the only counterargument that matters in crunch time: it actually works.

The number of production systems held together by duct tape, prayers, and Stack Overflow answers is the industry's best-kept open secret. That spaghetti mess with zero comments and variable names like "temp2" and "finalFinalREAL" might be hideous, but touch it and watch the whole system collapse like a house of cards during an earthquake.

Remember: there's a fine line between "legacy code" and "battle-tested code that pays the bills." Don't cross it.

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