How did this EVER work?!

What's the one thing no coder wants to talk about? Chances are, you know a few coders. They're everywhere these days! What you might not know is that most of them have experienced something, well, unexplained: code that works, but shouldn't. At all. It's just part of many programmers' lives. But what's really going on here? How is it that something that never should have worked in the first place works perfectly - sometimes, for years?!

Links:
- Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common (https://www.science.org/content/article/fake-scientific-papers-are-alarmingly-common)
- 'The situation has become appalling': fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/03/the-situation-has-become-appalling-fake-scientific-papers-push-research-credibility-to-crisis-point)
- Academics Use Imaginary Data in Their Research (https://reason.com/video/2024/05/07/academics-use-imaginary-data-in-their-research/)

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