The Program Is Stable

Legacy code Technical debt Fragile architecture Spaghetti code Code maintenance Refactoring If it works don't touch it Unstable code Software development

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The Program Is Stable

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When your project is held together by duct tape, prayers, and Stack Overflow answers from 2011, but somehow it still works. That moment when you've created such a fragile monstrosity that even breathing near your codebase might trigger a cascading failure of biblical proportions. The universal developer mantra: "I'll refactor it later" meets "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" in their eternal deadlock. Just slowly back away from the keyboard...

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