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FWIW, that just sounds like real code to me. You can spend your time polishing code until it shines and jerking off over the perfect crystal of logic you've created, or you can spend your time building something impressive that does cool stuff.

Especially when you're solo or on a small team, technical debt is actually something you can lean into. In this domain, refactoring is cheap and cutting corners can help you get where you need to go faster.

It's a too common mistake to think that because technical debt is a tar pit that kills many large products that this is universally true. The real trick is lowering the tolerance for flaws as the project grows and matures.