The time when people see this the clearest is during an outage. You’re in a stressful situation and it’s being made worse and longer by clever code. Do you see now why maybe clever code isn’t a good idea?

Cortisol actually reduces the effectiveness of working memory. Write your code like someone looking at it is already having a bad day, because not only are odds very good they will be, but that’s the costliest time for them to be looking at it. Probability x consequences.