The Ultimate Job Security Hack

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The Ultimate Job Security Hack

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The dark truth no CS professor ever warns you about. Write elegant, maintainable code and you'll be replaced by the next bootcamp grad in 48 hours. Create a tangled nightmare of spaghetti code with zero documentation, and suddenly you've got job security until retirement. The real 10x developer strategy isn't writing more code—it's making yourself unfireable by being the only one who understands the monstrosity you've created. Career hack unlocked!

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