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In my humble and admittedly little experience, its not what you intentionally write, but what gets unintentionally written and needs to be debugged later.

Carmack-like people utilising this stuff for good are few and far between, for your everyday joe programmer this is a footgun, a very-nonobvious and non-intuitive one (hence footgun moniker) that they write in crunch, it slips past reviews because reviewers are just joes with couple extra years, if at all, and then whrn things break after deployment, its an absolute pain to debug.




Yea.. "clever" devs can be a nightmare to have in teams. "I implemented all of that functionality in less than one hour" is great and all but it is just tech debt that needs to be re-factored later and costs ridiculous amounts of time to support and maintain until its re-written.




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