Your code is probably a nightmare for the next person to maintain. Have you ever worked on the same project with your own code for more than a year or two? Tho

Your code is probably a nightmare for the next person to maintain. Have you ever worked on the same project with your own code for more than a year or two? Though I'll agree with you on two points - boring old technologies and searching Stack Overflow. Optimizing code is something you don't need to worry about a lot of the time. Having understandable code is a lot more important in my opinion, but you don't seem to care about that. In saying that there are plenty of jobs where code doesn't need to be maintained. Most bioinformatics research just need to produce a graph or heatmap and gets used once, so maintainability isn't so important.