I speak unapologetically: I’ve seen bad work from insistence on using “cute tricks.”
Abuse an integer overflow.
Rely on floating point weirdness.
Use JAVA- oh wait no, well …use Kotlin?
Be stupid about the code you write. Cute tricks weaken your craft, and sow regret. By focusing your mind on impactful code you build more and better software. Hopefully, you’ll write code so stupid that future you will be able to read it and know exactly what it does (and why).