It Is Fine As Long As It Works

Ah, the classic "it works but I have no idea how" scenario! The bird drawings perfectly capture the chaos of software development. You start with a well-designed bird (your initial clean code), then it gets progressively more abstract yet somehow still flies (functions).

Every developer has experienced that moment when your code resembles the bottom-left bird - a tangled mess of spaghetti logic, nested if-statements, and emergency patches - yet somehow it still performs its core function like the bird on the bottom-right.

The true horror isn't that it works despite looking like a nightmare - it's that nobody dares refactor it because it might stop working altogether! Ship it to production anyway!