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You spend years learning design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and architectural paradigms. You master REST, GraphQL, microservices, event-driven systems. You debate tabs vs spaces with religious fervor.
Then one day you realize your entire career boils down to: take data from point A, send it to point B via HTTP. That's it. That's the whole job. Just fancy plumbing with extra steps and a lot of YAML files.
The "always has been" meme format hits different when you realize the astronaut with the gun represents your senior dev who's been trying to tell you this for years while you were busy overengineering everything with 47 microservices.
