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Time To Shine

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You know that developer who's been quietly sitting in the corner for months, suddenly feeling a surge of primal power coursing through their veins? That's what happens when the non-technical founder—who's been making all the "visionary" decisions—finally discovers Claude can write code.

Suddenly, that senior dev who's been warning about technical debt and asking for proper architecture reviews? Yeah, they're about to get replaced by an AI that hallucinates APIs and confidently suggests storing passwords in localStorage. The developer's existential crisis just got weaponized by someone who thinks HTML is a programming language.

Plot twist: Give it two weeks before the founder comes crawling back when Claude generates a beautiful React component that somehow breaks production, deletes the database, and orders 47 pizzas to the office. But until then, enjoy watching them explain to investors how they "optimized their tech team."

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