We Should Probably Have Another Meeting

Ah, the classic one-person development team. James Pearce here is playing 4D chess with version control - creating the PR, assigning himself as the reviewer, approving his own work, and then merging it. Who needs code reviews when you're both judge and jury? This is basically the corporate equivalent of marking your own homework, except somehow it's completely acceptable in certain "agile" environments. The circle of trust is just... a dot.

Ah, the eternal dance of delusion! The top panel shows a developer having an existential crisis trying to estimate project time—because apparently calculating how long it takes to build something that's never been built before is totally reasonable. Meanwhile, the bottom panel reveals the Project Manager, already promising the client it'll be done by yesterday with a smile that screams "I've just committed us to digital seppuku." The perfect representation of why we all have trust issues and caffeine addictions. The PM's optimism is adorable—like watching someone confidently walk into a glass door while giving a TED talk about spatial awareness.

Ah yes, corporate problem-solving at its finest. Developer: "I'm burning out." HR: "Here's a survey." Developer: *honestly admits burnout* HR: "You're fired." Problem solved! Just like how I fix memory leaks by shutting down the server. Can't have burnout if you don't have employees. The classic "have you tried turning it off and not turning it back on again" approach to human resources.

Poor intern just discovered the eternal punishment that is documentation. That look of betrayal when you realize writing docs isn't a one-off task but a never-ending nightmare that will haunt your entire career. The innocence is gone. The rage is building. Welcome to software development, kid—where code is temporary but documentation is forever. And somehow always outdated anyway.

The bell curve of programming competence strikes again! On the left, we've got the blissfully ignorant dev with failing tests, garbage coverage, and zero users. On the right, the genius with 1.2k users but still failing tests and mediocre coverage. And in the middle? That sweaty, stressed-out perfectionist with 100% test coverage, all tests passing, and... a whopping 3 users. Nothing captures the software industry quite like spending six months refactoring for perfect test coverage on a product nobody uses. Meanwhile, the "move fast and break things" crowd is swimming in users despite their dumpster fire codebase. The real 200 IQ move? Writing just enough tests to not get fired.

The meme brilliantly skewers "vibe coders" - those developers who code purely by intuition and vibes rather than solid engineering principles. The first three panels show elaborate stretching routines (cracking knuckles, neck rolls, leg stretches) as if preparing for an Olympic coding event. Then the punchline: their entire development methodology is just "Make no mistakes." Because obviously that's all you need for production code, right? Just... don't mess up! The filename "200k-mrr-startup-plz.md" is the cherry on top - implying this is someone's entire business plan for a startup hoping to hit $200K monthly recurring revenue. Who needs architecture documents when you can just... not make mistakes? 🤦‍♂️