Not Today, Legacy Code

The secret training program for software bugs has finally been exposed! First, they learn basic arithmetic (and get it completely wrong). Then they master advanced math (still catastrophically incorrect). Finally, the graduation ceremony where they receive their mission: infiltrate our code and drive developers to the brink of insanity. It's like a glimpse into the conspiracy we've always suspected—bugs aren't random accidents, they're meticulously trained agents of chaos with a vendetta against clean code. The most terrifying part? Their wrong answers aren't even consistently wrong—they're unpredictably, maliciously wrong, just like in production environments!

Content Walf walfieee Follow escape room concept: - you are a software engineer - there is a production issue related to a legacy codebase - no one knows how it works - various credentials are scattered around the office on post-it notes -there's some printouts of git diffs - you have an hour to fix this 5:36 am - 18 Jan 2018 6,627 Retweets 14,204 Likes 356 17 6.6K 14K

OH. MY. GOD. The absolute AUDACITY of that guy who quit last week! "It's all in the documentation," he said with a straight face while leaving us with what appears to be LITERAL HIEROGLYPHICS! 🙄 You know what's worse than no documentation? Documentation that requires a PhD in Ancient Egyptian Studies and a time machine! Like, sweetie, unless you're expecting us to hire the ghost of Indiana Jones as a consultant, maybe write something in ACTUAL ENGLISH next time? The rest of us are now stuck playing archaeological code detective, desperately trying to decipher if that bird symbol means "critical database function" or "I was bored on a Tuesday." Truly the ultimate revenge of a departed developer!

The two horsemen of software development: hardcoding endless if-statements for every possible value (top) versus generating those same if-statements with a script that alternates between True and False (bottom). That moment when you realize you can write code to write your terrible code for you. Work smarter not harder! Technical debt can now be automated at scale!

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