The Sweet Taste Of Unoptimized Freedom

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The Sweet Taste Of Unoptimized Freedom

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Nothing hits quite like writing a cascade of if-else statements when you're alone in the codebase. Sure, a proper switch case or pattern matching would be more elegant, but there's something deliciously rebellious about hammering out nested conditionals at 2AM without a senior dev looking over your shoulder muttering "that's O(n) when it could be O(log n)" or "have you considered a strategy pattern here?" Freedom tastes like pizza and technical debt.

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