Max, did your brother ever admit to ruining the mix?

Actually, that five minutes feels like it buys time later. Sharp tools make the next horse go way faster, so you kind of get the minutes back. Letting stuff pile up just makes the final clean a bigger, slower chore.

How did you manage to sleep after that cliffhanger?

My first Python script had a block of code I called 'the magic box' because I had no clue how it worked... I just knew deleting it made everything break. Pretty sure that's how most of us learned, honestly.