> “We thought it was plausible that what happens is you start with an initial draft that’s simple, and then later you think of all these other conditions that y

> “We thought it was plausible that what happens is you start with an initial draft that’s simple, and then later you think of all these other conditions that you want to include. And the idea is that once you’ve started, it’s much easier to center-embed that into the existing provision,” says Martinez, who is now a fellow and instructor at the University of Chicago Law School. Seems to me that's also how code bases become obfuscated after starting out cleanly.