The Ancient Code Hieroglyphs

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The Ancient Code Hieroglyphs

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Looking at your two-week-old code like it's an ancient Egyptian hieroglyph that needs a Rosetta Stone to decipher. The transformation from "this is so elegant and efficient" to "who wrote this archaeological artifact and why are there zero comments?" happens at approximately 336 hours after commit. The worst part? That indecipherable spaghetti monster came from YOUR brain, and future-you is silently judging past-you's life choices while frantically searching Stack Overflow for clues about your own logic.

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