Bad Code Contest May 2026

: Use the most confusing, side-effect-heavy syntax possible (e.g., nested pointer arithmetic and assignments inside loop conditions) to make a reader's head spin. 📜 Judging Criteria

: A lifetime supply of "TODO" comments that will never be addressed. You Should Write Bad Code | by David Amos - Level Up Coding

Welcome to the , where the goal isn't to solve the problem—it’s to solve it in the most absurd and inefficient way possible . Bad Code Contest

This competition celebrates the "joys of absurdity" in programming, rewarding those who can turn a simple task into a logical nightmare. 🏆 Contest Categories Submit your masterpieces in any of the following brackets:

: Is the logic so convoluted that it would take a skilled programmer weeks to debug it? 🎁 Prizes : Use the most confusing, side-effect-heavy syntax possible

: Write a program with no infinite loops that is mathematically guaranteed to never finish running before the heat death of the universe.

: Solve a trivial problem (like checking if a number is even) using 5,000+ lines of code, three external APIs, and a custom-built neural network. This competition celebrates the "joys of absurdity" in

: Write a single file that is valid, runnable code in two or more different programming languages simultaneously.