Engineer’s Codex is a free publication about real-world software engineering. I write about real-world technical case studies, outages, and interesting stories from the industry.When I was an undergrad, Leetcode broke my brain. I would see top solutions of esoteric one-liners and wrongly think “how do I ever get this good?”This is commonly called “code golfing”. It’s a fun hobby, but very far from “good code.”Everybody (including those on Leetcode) knows this isn’t good code. In the industry, it...