Let's be honest—your CS degree taught you data structures and algorithms, but your actual programming career is just professional Googling with extra steps. Companies pretend they want you to memorize binary tree inversions, but what they really need is someone who can find that obscure Stack Overflow answer in record time. The real 10x developers aren't the ones who know everything; they're the ones who can craft the perfect search query to fix production at 3 AM. Maybe instead of whiteboard coding, interviews should just measure your Google-fu and how quickly you can find that one line fix for that dependency hell you're in.

Ah, the classic StackOverflow NaN test debate! Someone wrote a beautifully elegant isNaN() function that simply checks if a number isn't equal to itself ( num != num ), which is actually brilliant because that's the only time equality fails in JavaScript/Python. But then some principled developer comes along and declares it "prohibited witchcraft" despite admitting it works perfectly. This is coding purity culture at its finest. "Yes, your three-line solution works flawlessly, but I'm morally obligated to insist you use the official 50-line implementation with seventeen edge cases instead." The real witchcraft is how StackOverflow manages to turn elegant solutions into religious debates since 2009.