>find a weird 4-line function written 9 years ago by a dev who left the company
>looks completely redundant
>comment it out to clean up the file
>three unrelated services fail and the printer starts speaking Latin
>uncomment it immediately, add // DO NOT TOUCH, git commit & push
If it works in production, leave it in peace.
>>2462
Every mature project has at least one load-bearing comment holding the universe together.
"Increment the counter at the top of this comment if you tried to optimize this and failed: 42"
Anonymous | ID: f5f5aefe | No. 2464 | 2026-09-08 17:14:07