This Little Refactor Is Going To Cost Us 51 Years

This Little Refactor Is Going To Cost Us 51 Years
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Ever watched a senior dev casually say "Let me just refactor this real quick" before plunging into the depths of legacy code? It's like watching an Olympic diver gracefully leap off the platform only to discover the pool below is actually a portal to hell itself.

What starts as a "simple 15-minute fix" transforms into an archaeological expedition through 12 years of technical debt, undocumented dependencies, and code comments like "TODO: fix this before 2014 release."

The flames at the bottom? That's the production server after discovering that seemingly unused function was actually keeping the entire authentication system alive. Whoops!