When You Read Your 3 Years Old Code

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When You Read Your 3 Years Old Code
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Opening that dusty repo from 3 years ago and finding your brain sitting next to a gas can. Perfect metaphor for the cognitive dissonance of reading your old code and thinking "Who wrote this garbage? Oh wait, it was me." The only options are to burn it all down or somehow reattach your brain and figure out what past-you was thinking when you decided that 47 nested if-statements was an elegant solution.

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