Call of the Legacy.

Under mysterious circumstances, a programmer escapes. And the new one who came in his place is trying to understand what happened.

He finds those. Doc, where it is said that there is a terrible legacy code in the project, and there are its fans - the cult "do not crack - it works".

During the investigation, a young programmer finds this legacy code, it is untouchable.

When trying to remove it, it itself is restored, and only works once a year when the record in the redise fades.

The programmer goes to fight legacy code, as soon as it approaches it, it starts, almost folding the entire project.

A young programmer miraculously manages to hang a hand flag in a redise and escapes from this piece of code.

He knows that sooner or later the TTL flag will expire and the monster will wake up again.
He is afraid that Legacy fans will kill him for telling the world about it.