Plug And Pray

The eternal struggle of API integration! Two devs start a project with optimism, dividing frontend and backend responsibilities cleanly. Fast forward a month, and they're frantically trying to connect incompatible interfaces like jamming together electrical plugs from different countries.

That moment when you realize nobody discussed the contract between services, and now your JSON doesn't match their endpoints. The shocked faces perfectly capture that "why isn't this working?!" panic when you've built beautiful systems that refuse to talk to each other.

The real software development cycle: confidence → coding → confusion → crisis.