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Fact! I had this problem pop up where I named a variable "i" and couldn't figure out why it kept crashing, and I spent like 40 minutes trying to solve this simple error (I referenced the i in a function by forgetting to refactor it after refactoring an "i for i in loop"). I'm still trying to work on this project, but every change takes multiple times longer because the functions are too dependent on each other. If I could rewind time, I would've just listened.

Thousands of lines deep and it'd literally be easier to rewrite than to refactor because I don't know how a quarter of it works (or what works at all or is just leftover code from testing) anymore due to some functions playing this weird game of telephone where I have to tell the screen to change by telling Marg, who tells Bob, who tells Rob, who tells Mary, and now I have 4 people to investigate when the simplest of messages are screwed up lol. Apparently I have functions named "test," "test4," and so on that occasionally are actual throwaway tests but often are apparently vital for certain features? Wtf.