I Love Pathfinding

When your neural network tutorial makes more money on the "other" platform than YouTube. 🤔 Turns out the thirst for knowledge takes on a whole new meaning when it's hosted on Pornhub! $1000 vs $340 per million views? Guess we've all been uploading our algorithms to the wrong site this whole time. The real big brain move isn't optimizing your SEO—it's changing your video platform. And here I am, like an idiot, trying to monetize technical content on YouTube like some kind of peasant.

When your IDE documentation is just ASCII art instead of actual descriptions. The developer who made this struct literally drew a 3D cube in code comments instead of writing proper documentation. Then labeled the vertices A-H and called it a day. Pure chaotic genius! Bonus points for the struct being named "CubeInt" which somehow makes it both obvious and completely unhelpful at the same time. Who needs formal documentation when you can just sketch it out in ASCII?

The interviewer asks for a simple array sort of just 0s, 1s, and 2s (literally the easiest sorting problem ever), and this poor soul immediately jumps to Bubble Sort—the algorithmic equivalent of using a sledgehammer to hang a picture frame. For the uninitiated, this is a classic interview problem with a O(n) solution—just count occurrences and rebuild the array! But under pressure, our brain defaults to the first sorting algorithm we learned in CS101. The interviewer's face says it all: your grandma with a walker would cross the finish line before your O(n²) bubble sort even gets halfway through. Nothing captures the interview panic spiral quite like forgetting that you're sorting just THREE UNIQUE VALUES while proposing an algorithm from the stone age of computing.

Regular developers measure performance in milliseconds or microseconds because that's what modern tools show them. Meanwhile, the true optimization psychopaths are counting individual CPU clock cycles like it's 1982. They're the ones rewriting entire functions in assembly just to save 3 cycles in a loop that runs twice a day. The difference between "fast enough" and "I need to know exactly how many nanoseconds each instruction takes."

Behold the absolute MADLAD who decided that heap allocation is for the weak and cowardly! Why bother with malloc() or new when you can just throw everything onto the stack like you're playing Jenga with your program's memory? Stack overflow? Never heard of her. Just casually allocating 50MB arrays as local variables and watching your program crash with the grace of a drunk giraffe on ice skates. The sheer AUDACITY of living life on the edge, where every function call is a gamble and segmentation faults are just spicy surprises. Who needs proper memory management when you can just increase the stack size and pretend the problem doesn't exist? It's giving "I don't have a hoarding problem, I just need a bigger house" energy but make it programming.

Behold, the classic "I just learned programming" approach to checking if a number is even or odd! Instead of using the modulo operator ( n % 2 == 0 ), our brave beginner has hardcoded every possible case from 0 to 25. It's like building a dictionary to look up what 2+2 equals instead of just adding the numbers. This is the programming equivalent of bringing a printed map of every street in the country instead of using GPS. The best part? This code technically works... until someone enters 26.