Hey! I’d actually say that’s a... reflection on your friend. I thought for a couple hours about whether to reply to this comment, and I ultimately decided that

Hey! I’d actually say that’s a... reflection on your friend. I thought for a couple hours about whether to reply to this comment, and I ultimately decided that writing maintainable or readable code in any language is the engineer’s primary responsibility. So if nobody could maintain this person’s code after they were done with it, maybe they were truly brilliant, but not so good on the “raise up the others who come after me” part of engineering :/