So I work with a team of people who are extremely bright in a number of ways, but rather knuckleheads in others. f'rinstance, take error handling in their code. Some functions return 0 for success, 1 for failure; some the opposite. Some return negative values for failure. Some throw exceptions. Some return nothing, and most ignore the return values anyway. It all depends on who coded what, so you often have all these commingled in any one file.

Guess who gets to sort that whole mess out now?