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I CODED SOMETHING DUMB AND I'M PROUD OF IT

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This developer added a quicksort animation feature to a game to visually sort items while handling potential changes in the list being sorted. Instead of optimizing the quicksort algorithm to resume from its last state, the developer chose a simpler, inefficient solution (on purpose): the sorting illusion is created by repeatedly running the algorithm from the start until a change occurs.