Anyone who has had to maintain code that has been edited by many different people has likely run into what you might call unintentionally-obfuscated code. I have encountered code where a function was cloned from another function without the comments being updated, so that the comments become quite misleading, and, even worse, where a variable and/or database field was repurposed without changing its name. This can lead you quite a long ways down a blind alley when you are trying to understand what a program is doing.
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