The Four Horsemen Of Accidental Coding Success

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The Four Horsemen Of Accidental Coding Success

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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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