"Temp code" is fine. In fact, I'll go a step further: it doesn't matter how shitty a piece of code is if you never have to touch it again. The way you deal wi

"Temp code" is fine. In fact, I'll go a step further: it doesn't matter how shitty a piece of code is if you never have to touch it again. The way you deal with "temp code" is to slightly improve the aspect you are changing, each time you change it. Maybe you did something weirdly hacky with magic numbers everywhere - when you need to add another magic number you refactor that aspect to no longer use them. Or maybe if they're starting to look more like types you do a refactor to enums or classes. Then the places that can be shitty remain shitty. The places that can't are fixed up over time.