What is the most absurd code you've ever seen? (quora.com)

Lol, cron jobbed scripts. Instead of changing the code they would just write a new script and cron it 1 second after the original script.

Problem solved!

Surely there's prior art on the AT&T one? Might be a bit hard to search for, though.

Pretty much any code I've written and reviewed after a couple of months.

Obligatory link to TheDailyWTF:

http://thedailywtf.com/

class CSectionOfSingleMaterialDrawableObjectBuilder { ... };

The Magic Servlet pattern in action: a 4000+ line function implemented in a jsp file; took a while to refactor that dumpster fire. I have never put much stock in 'licensing' for software developers but the aforesaid monstrosity really made me consider whether I should rethink my position.

I once encountered a 2K+ line script handling submissions from something like a contact form.

If a client submitted a value for which the key didn't exist in the database table, it wasn't ignored - the application would alter the table to add that row to the database so it could insert it.

Found an "if (true or false) { ... }" in a PHP project my team is maintaining. It was from before we took over the project so we don't know where it comes from.