The Magic Number Mastermind

variables Technical debt Code quality Hardcoding Bad practices Coding horror Constants Maintainability Magic numbers

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The Magic Number Mastermind

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The galaxy brain approach to coding: why bother with a handful of dynamic variables when you can create a magnificent constellation of magic numbers? Nothing says "I trust my future self" quite like hardcoding 50 constants instead of using meaningful variables that might actually explain what your code does. The real 200 IQ move is creating a codebase so rigid that when requirements change (and they always change), you get to play the exciting game of "find and replace across 47 files." Bonus points if you name them all var1 through var50!

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