My Intern Handing In Perfectly Formatted And Commented Code

You know something's off when an intern submits code that's too clean. Beautiful formatting? Check. Meaningful comments? Check. Zero technical debt? Red flag. After years of reviewing pull requests that look like they were written during a caffeine-fueled 3 AM panic attack, you develop a sixth sense for suspiciously perfect code. Either they copied it from somewhere, they're secretly a 10x engineer slumming it as an intern, or—most likely—they spent 80% of their time making it pretty instead of actually solving the problem. The interrogation begins: "So... walk me through your thought process here." Translation: "Please tell me you actually understand what you wrote."