Imagine in 6 months you have survived a traumatic brain injury and you're required to maintain the awful crap that younger/smarter you thought, at the time, was

Imagine in 6 months you have survived a traumatic brain injury and you're required to maintain the awful crap that younger/smarter you thought, at the time, was clever. Abstraction is bad and is the price you pay for being able to move lots of things around at once. WET (Write Everything Twice) > DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) because you might be able to grok what the heck you meant at the time. It kills me that my colleague wants to be clever. NO! Clever is bad!