Whoever Came Up With Rule Eight Seek Help

Rule 8 of PEP 8 (Python's style guide) says you should limit all lines to a maximum of 79 characters. Yeah, 79. Not 80, not 100, not even a nice round number. Just... 79. Like someone rolled a dice and said "close enough."

So naturally, when you're reviewing code and see those beautiful 200-character one-liners that do everything including making coffee, you're legally obligated to tell them they're the worst programmer ever. And then you hire them anyway because let's be real—anyone who can fit that much logic into one line is either a genius or completely unhinged, and both are valuable in this industry.

The real kicker? We all pretend to follow it during code reviews while our own code looks like we're being charged per newline.