"Copilot Unravels Mystery of How Devs Managed to Write Code So Bad, It's a Miracle It Didn't Summon a Bug Portal to Another Dimension"

In a shocking turn of events, a developer discovered that their code was so bad, it became a case study in how not to write software. With the help of GitHub's Copilot, they unraveled the mystery of how a simple requirement turned into a complex, hacky solution. It all started with a reasonable idea: show a success message when a user connects a bank account and it gets verified. But then, things took a turn for the worse. The developer put the logic in a computed property, which led to a series of incremental bad decisions, including forcing evaluation in the template and using a "dummy" prop to trigger reactivity. As the codebase grew, so did the anti-pattern, until it became a behemoth of technical debt. The psychology behind it? A combination of pattern matching gone wrong, incremental degradation, and a lack of code review depth. The warning signs were there, but they were ignored, and the code became a testament to the power of human ingenuity in creating complex, unmaintainable systems. Thankfully, it's been fixed, but the story serves as a cautionary tale for developers everywhere: the road to awful code is paved with small, locally-reasonable decisions that never got refactored.