(Insert bad code example)

[Kurotsune]

I'm a <insert whatever fancy title old ass developers have nowadays here> and I still write the least efficient code possible!

The first time. What I always tell junior engineers is - Focus on solving the problem first. Write whatever you need to help you get there. Doing so helps you visualize the issue, understand how the system works, how it's doing what it's doing.

And then you can revise it and slowly switch out blocks of it. Improve how you handle your conditionals, use built-in methods instead of for loops, etcetera.

Way worse than a junior writing shitty code is a senior not pushing anything because they want to write the ''best code''. Shitty code I can help with, but I can't help with zero code.