No As A Service: The Ultimate Developer Defense

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No As A Service: The Ultimate Developer Defense

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THE ABSOLUTE HERO WE NEED! A t-shirt that says "#NaaS - No as a Service" for stakeholder meetings?! GENIUS! 🙌 For those of us who've survived the 47th request to "just add this one tiny feature" that would literally require rewriting the entire codebase, this shirt is basically BATTLE ARMOR. Imagine the gasps when you turn around in that Zoom call and the product manager sees your silent rebellion against scope creep! It's like having a force field against "can we just..." questions. I'm literally DYING at the thought of someone having the audacity to actually wear this. The modern developer's equivalent of bringing a sword to a gunfight - except the sword is SASS and the gunfight is a 2-hour meeting that could've been an email! 💀

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