[Verse 1] Started with a simple plan, clean design in hand But the client called and said "we need this one demand" So we wrote a quick fix, just a patch to make it work "We'll handle this manually," became our battle cry quirk [Chorus] Exceptions become features when we don't think it through Manual becomes permanent when there's no time to redo What costs a minute now will cost us hours later Exceptions become features, turning help into hater [Verse 2] Edge cases are normal, they're part of the design But unresolved arguments cross over the line When "we'll deal with that special case" becomes the standard way Your exception handling grows bigger every day [Chorus] Exceptions become features when we don't think it through Manual becomes permanent when there's no time to redo What costs a minute now will cost us hours later Exceptions become features, turning help into hater [Bridge] Count the hidden costs now, measure what you pay Every manual workaround steals time from your day Multiply by all the teams, across the whole org wide The true cost of exceptions is what you're trying to hide [Verse 3] That temporary script you wrote for one client's need Now runs for fifty customers, it's how they all feed What started as an exception is now your main flow But the architecture's broken and it's starting to show [Chorus] Exceptions become features when we don't think it through Manual becomes permanent when there's no time to redo What costs a minute now will cost us hours later Exceptions become features, turning help into hater [Outro] Before you build the system, align the way you think Or exceptions become features faster than you blink
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