Getting Your Code to Production Is the Beginning of the Journey, Not the End of It

If you get code that is hard to figure out, hard to reason about, hard to find the stuff that you're working on, and trust me, I've worked on plenty of those. You spend a day or two or 10 just figuring out where the pieces are supposed to be. And it's a giant waste of time. People get frustrated because you're not getting them the solution in a timely manner. So if your code is a horror show, which is, let's say instead of being in a function or a set of dozens of functions, it's just the script. That's when it becomes the problem of, hey, I actually can't refactor my way out of