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The "Cruft Creature" eats developers in a rush, devours your future, by giving you a temporary reprieve in the present. It's not quite this bad, but it does feel Hydra-like sometimes, sometimes. As you make changes in the masterfile, you have to change in, which necessitates a change in masterfile. This has led to a beast, lurking within our system, an insatiable beast called the Cruft Creature. It has retreated into the dank depths for now, but they say it has siblings that feed on other codebases.