Ever seen a bird drawn by a programmer who skipped all the design patterns lectures? That's what we're looking at here. The code starts elegant, devolves into spaghetti, then somehow still flies. Just like that simulation I ran in grad school that violated three laws of thermodynamics but still predicted experimental results perfectly. The universe rewards the audacious hack sometimes.
It's the computational equivalent of duct-taping a rocket to a shopping cart—horrifying to behold but surprisingly functional. Every computer scientist has that one algorithm they're ashamed to show at conferences but secretly runs in production.
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