[Kiro]

In my experience code become unitelligable not because it's fine tuned and advanced but because it's messy and rushed.

[moconnor]

Or over-generalized with the logic split up and hidden in the interactions between a dozen (sub)classes.

[oneeyedpigeon]

Or under-generalised with the logic duplicated in a dozen places, ever-so-slightly differently

[nwh]

Doesn't quite hold true once you get done to hand written and optimised binaries though. There's no way of making assembly easily readable to everyone, no matter how relaxed the developer.

[moconnor]

Hand-written assembly can be just as readable as any other language. See https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II/blob/m... for a good example!