Nonsense. Often your code will be ugly because some API in other code is broken or missing (see a lot of JavaScript), or doing something the right way is too sl

Nonsense. Often your code will be ugly because some API in other code is broken or missing (see a lot of JavaScript), or doing something the right way is too slow or complicated, and you don't happen to have enough time to make a research project out of it. So then you add a self-deprecating comment to provide a little joy in the existence of the poor schmuck who will have to maintain your mess. Everybody wins. Kinda.