Meeting Driven Development

Ah, the classic "I'll just finish this on Monday" self-deception! On Friday evening, our optimistic programmer leaves a task thinking it's nearly done. Fast forward to Monday morning, and suddenly that same code looks like ancient hieroglyphics written by a caffeinated squirrel. The weekend brain-wipe is the ultimate programmer's amnesia - your Friday self essentially pranking your Monday self by leaving behind code that might as well be written in Brainfuck. It's like time travel, except instead of meeting dinosaurs, you're meeting your own incomprehensible decisions from 72 hours ago.

The iceberg metaphor is painfully accurate. After 15 years in the industry, I can confirm that typing out the actual code is the easy 10% that everyone sees. The other 90%? That's the soul-crushing existential void of figuring out what to code in the first place. AI can generate syntax all day long, but good luck getting it to understand the business logic buried in 47 conflicting Slack messages, 3 outdated Jira tickets, and that one crucial requirement your PM mentioned offhandedly during a coffee break last Tuesday.

Coding life in a nutshell! You're happily working on your current project when suddenly a shiny new idea appears and BAM - you abandon everything to chase it! Meanwhile at the bottom of your hard drive, that skeleton is literally all your past projects sitting there... forever unfinished, collecting digital dust. The GitHub graveyard grows another tombstone! 💀 We all have that folder named "will_finish_someday" that we haven't opened since 2019!

That face when the product owner describes a completely vague feature, you have zero clue how to implement it, but somehow everyone agrees it's a "5-point story." In Agile planning poker, story points are supposed to measure complexity, but they've become the universal "sounds complicated but not too complicated" metric. It's the software equivalent of answering "fine" when someone asks how you're doing while your code is silently burning in production. The best part? Next sprint, that innocent 5-pointer will mutate into a 13-point monster with seven undocumented dependencies and a legacy system integration nobody mentioned in the planning meeting.

The road that time (and budget) forgot! This glorious patchwork of asphalt represents the sacred timeline of your company's codebase. Each differently colored patch is a desperate hotfix deployed at 2 AM by a different developer who whispered "we'll refactor this properly later" – a promise as broken as the road itself. The yellow lines desperately trying to maintain order are the coding standards document nobody follows. The best part? The project manager still calls it "battle-tested" in client meetings.

No amount of QA testing will ever match the sheer destructive power of end users in production. You spent months testing every edge case, fixed all known bugs, and deployed your "stable" release with confidence. Then day one hits and somehow users find seven new ways to crash your app that should be physically impossible. It's like they have a supernatural talent for finding that one scenario your test suite missed. "I must break you" isn't just a threat—it's the unspoken mission statement of every user who downloads your app.