The corporate ladder speedrun: destroy a perfectly functioning system, make it objectively worse, get promoted, then bail before the dumpster fire you created becomes your problem. Peak software engineering right here. Dude took a Java service that ran flawlessly for 5 years and convinced management it needed a complete rewrite in Go with microservices because "modernization." The result? Slower performance, double the costs, and a memory leak that strikes at 2 AM like clockwork. But hey, that 20-page design doc had enough buzzwords to secure the L6 promotion. The best part? After getting the promo, they immediately transferred to a "chill Core Infra team" where they won't be on call for the disaster they created. Some poor new grad is now inheriting a $550k total comp nightmare. That's not upward mobility—that's a tactical extraction after carpet bombing production. Pro tip: If your promotion depends on creating "scope" and "complexity" instead of solving actual problems, you're not engineering—you're just resume-driven development with extra steps.

You know that junior dev who just finished a React tutorial and suddenly thinks they're qualified to redesign your entire microservices architecture? That's what's happening here. The vibe coder—bless their heart—has wandered into a system design meeting armed with nothing but confidence and a Figma account. The architects are giving them that look. You know the one. The "please stop talking before you suggest we store everything in localStorage" look. System design meetings are where you discuss scalability, data flow, and whether your database will survive Black Friday traffic. It's not the place for "what if we just made it look cooler?" Stay in your lane, focus on those CSS animations, and let the backend folks argue about CAP theorem in peace.