If It Works, It Works

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If It Works, It Works

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The sweaty, nervous face says it all. Sure, your code might look like it was written during a caffeine-induced panic attack at 4am, but hey—it passes all the tests. The "if it works, it works" philosophy is the duct tape of programming. Your colleagues can judge your 17 nested if-statements and that one function that's somehow 500 lines long, but they can't argue with results. Pragmatism beats elegance when the deadline was yesterday.

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