It Works

You start with a beautiful, well-structured bird drawing—clean lines, proper proportions, following all the best practices. Then requirements change. Product wants a new feature. You add a patch here, a workaround there. Before you know it, your codebase is a chaotic tornado of duct tape and prayers, barely resembling the original design. But here's the kicker: it still flies. Tests pass (mostly). Users are happy (enough). So you ship it, close the ticket, and pretend you meant to architect it that way all along. "Don't touch it, it's load-bearing spaghetti" becomes your new team motto. If it works, it works—even if looking at the code makes your eyes bleed.