> Future you that has to decipher the code. Why make it hard on yourself? Software is a living thing eventually a decision will need to be made about it and without understanding what it does it's easier to make suboptimal assumptions.

To the defense of the title, in my experience, whenever label "hacker" was used on programmer or code, it meant "difficult to read, full of hard to maintain shortcuts and tricks" kind of code. Really always, I don't ever remember it to be used in any other sense.