The Paradox Of First-Try Success

The eternal wisdom of programming: even terrible documentation feels like a gift when you've spent hours staring at undocumented code wondering why the hell it works at all. Nothing quite matches that specific joy of finding a single cryptic comment after debugging for 3 hours. "// Don't touch this or everything breaks" - ah yes, the pinnacle of technical writing. And yet, we all know that one codebase with documentation so pristine it practically whispers sweet nothings in your ear. A rare and beautiful creature indeed.

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