There's nothing wrong with code that solves your problem, even if you don't know how that code works, even if it breaks in a couple of years, even if no one else could maintain, extend or debug that code. Personal software is fundamentally different from software made to be used and maintained by others:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/02/canonization/#operate-iterate-improve
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Cory Doctorow
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