Is This Turning A Bug Into A Feature

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Is This Turning A Bug Into A Feature

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Look at that broken plastic piece being repurposed as a hook. That's basically the coding equivalent of:

"Hey, that null pointer exception is actually super useful for detecting when the user does something stupid!"

Every senior dev has that moment where they stare at their janky workaround and think, "Ship it. It's not a bug anymore—it's an undocumented feature with character." Bonus points if you add a cryptic comment like // Don't touch this. It works. I don't know why.

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