You know that revolutionary feeling when you delete 3,000 lines of dead code that's been sitting there since the previous dev "might need it later"? Yeah, it's basically a spiritual awakening. Nothing quite matches the dopamine hit of nuking those AbstractFactoryManagerBeanSingletonHelper classes that do absolutely nothing except make your IDE lag. The best part? Running the build and watching everything still work. No broken imports. No mysterious runtime errors. Just pure, clean code liberation. You're basically the Lenin of refactoring, leading the proletariat (your remaining classes) to freedom from the tyranny of bloat. Pro tip: git blame those deleted classes and you'll find they were added during a 3 AM "temporary fix" in 2019. They were never temporary. They were never a fix.

The progression from x += 1 (normal, acceptable) to x++ (meh, whatever) to x -= -1 (suddenly sophisticated) is the programming equivalent of putting on a tuxedo to take out the trash. Sure, you're technically subtracting a negative to increment, but you're also the kind of person who probably writes if (condition == true) unironically. It's mathematically correct, unnecessarily complex, and absolutely nobody asked for it—which makes it perfect code review material. Your teammates will either think you're a genius or question your life choices. Probably both.

You copy the exact code from the documentation, hit run, and suddenly you're staring at an error message telling you that what you just did is forbidden. Turns out "demonstration purposes" is developer-speak for "this will absolutely break in production but it makes for a clean screenshot." Documentation writers love pulling this move—they'll show you the simplest possible implementation that violates every best practice known to humanity, then slap a tiny disclaimer at the bottom that you'll only notice after you've already committed it to main. No error handling, hardcoded credentials, synchronous calls blocking the entire thread... it's all there, beautifully formatted and completely unusable. The real kicker? Half the time the "correct" way isn't even documented. You're just supposed to magically know that the example was a trap.