Then go back a few months later to strip it all out so it now does the same thing in just 20% of the lines of code. Amazing!
Bonus points for stripping out ALL the whitespace, putting the code through as much code obfuscation as you can, ensuring that version is all that’s on their backups, then taking their “generous buyout offer” when rumors of more downsizing start up again.
Just write a script with sed to replace \n with \n\n\n\n\n. Now you’re a 5x tech bro.
Then go back a few months later to strip it all out so it now does the same thing in just 20% of the lines of code. Amazing!
Bonus points for stripping out ALL the whitespace, putting the code through as much code obfuscation as you can, ensuring that version is all that’s on their backups, then taking their “generous buyout offer” when rumors of more downsizing start up again.