Trying to explain Brooks' Law to a project manager is like showing them these two chickens. On the left: a chicken burnt to a crisp after 1 hour at 900°F. On the right: a perfectly roasted chicken after 3 hours at 300°F. The PM's brain short-circuits when you tell them that nine women can't make a baby in one month, and throwing more developers at a late project just creates more merge conflicts and onboarding overhead. But they'll still ask if we can "just parallelize the work" while ignoring the codebase slowly turning into charcoal.

OMG THE BETRAYAL! 😱 The number 0 is sitting there, all smug with its little face, thinking it's special because it's a placeholder. Then BAM! 💥 The computer and number 1 team up to form the ULTIMATE POWER COUPLE - binary code! That's right, sweetie, computers only need 0s and 1s to run THE ENTIRE DIGITAL UNIVERSE while the rest of us peasants are over here counting to 10 like absolute CAVEMEN. The audacity of these two to flaunt their relationship status while the rest of the number system is left in the dust. I. CANNOT. EVEN. 🙄

Nothing hits quite like that dopamine rush when you write a massive chunk of code and it runs flawlessly on the first try. It's that rare moment when you feel like you've temporarily ascended to godhood in the programming universe. No debugging required. No stack traces. No cryptic error messages. Just pure, unfiltered validation that maybe—just maybe—you actually know what you're doing. The fact that 978 developers upvoted this speaks volumes about how universally rare and euphoric this experience truly is.

Hobby coders looking all put-together while professional devs resemble caffeinated zombies? Yep, that tracks. Nothing ages you like the sweet combination of impossible deadlines, legacy code maintenance, and 3AM production outages. Meanwhile, weekend coders get to work on whatever shiny new framework catches their eye without ever dealing with JIRA tickets or explaining to management why "just adding that small feature" will take two weeks. The energy drink is just the cherry on top of our slow descent into the void. Worth it though... I think?