The Project I Was Hired For After They Fired The Entire Previous Team

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The Project I Was Hired For After They Fired The Entire Previous Team

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Ah, the classic "inheriting a codebase" experience, elegantly represented by a dog balancing on four bottles. Your entire project is just a precarious balancing act between try-except blocks that catch everything but fix nothing, Stack Overflow solutions copy-pasted with zero understanding, questionable hacks that would make professional developers weep, and that mysterious legacy code nobody dares to touch because the entire system would probably implode. The tiny hat is just *chef's kiss* - the one attempt at documentation that explains absolutely nothing.

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