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Ah, the classic "job interview disguised as a coding test" trap. Two full days of implementing multiple bullet firing, collision optimization, weapon modes, particle effects, high score tables, and UFOs... all for the privilege of maybe getting hired. Translation: "Please build our entire game for free while we watch and decide if we like you enough to actually pay you someday." Next time just ask candidates to fix your production bugs while they're at it. Nothing says "we value your expertise" like extracting 16 hours of unpaid labor before the first handshake.

The four stages of accidental coding genius! First, pure dread at implementing a complex feature from scratch—standard Tuesday morning existential crisis. Then somehow you bang out the code in a day (fueled by pure panic and energy drinks). But wait—it actually works on the first try? That's suspicious. And finally, the cosmic horror moment when you realize your hastily written code somehow handles edge cases you didn't even think about. Either you're secretly brilliant or you've created an eldritch abomination that will eventually gain sentience and destroy your codebase. Probably both.

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