The tech industry's job market in one perfect image. Nothing captures the absurdity of modern hiring like demanding someone be simultaneously fresh out of college yet somehow possessing half a decade of professional experience. It's like asking a newborn to recite their memoir. Next they'll want your GitHub contributions from the womb and internship experience from preschool. The cognitive dissonance is so strong you can practically hear the recruiter saying "entry-level position" while typing "must have architected multiple distributed systems at scale."

The meme shows a fear hierarchy with a terrified child labeled "Serial Killers" cowering from a girl labeled "Psychopaths," who's scared of something even worse: "Those who code 1000+ lines on notepad without any internet support and it compiles with 0 errors and 0 warnings." Coding without Stack Overflow is already traumatic enough, but doing it in Notepad? Without syntax highlighting, auto-complete, or error checking? And then having it compile perfectly on the first try? That's not human—that's supernatural horror. The kind of developer who writes flawless code in Notepad either made a deal with a compiler demon or has achieved coding nirvana that mere mortals can only dream of.

Ah yes, the mythical "code that works on the first try" - a creature rarer than a unicorn riding a dragon. Most of us spend our days in an endless cycle of write-compile-error-debug-repeat until our coffee turns cold and our will to live evaporates. The second commenter's reaction is completely rational. Getting code to compile without errors on the first attempt is basically developer erotica at this point. Pure fantasy. I've been coding for 15 years and I'm still convinced that working first-try code is just an elaborate hoax perpetuated by Big Tech to keep us all motivated.

That awkward moment when you're Googling "worst coding practices to avoid" and suddenly your entire codebase is being described in painful detail. Nothing quite matches the existential dread of realizing you're not reading a list of mistakes—you're reading your autobiography. The side-eye puppet perfectly captures that moment of horrific self-awareness when Stack Overflow basically says "you know that thing you're doing? Yeah, don't do that." Bonus points if you find your exact implementation labeled as "Example of what NOT to do."