Cloud Bill Goes Brrrrr

That moment when GitHub Copilot helpfully suggests your private API key that you accidentally committed to a repo six months ago. Nothing like having your $5000/month AWS bill exposed by an AI that's just trying to be helpful. Security through obscurity fails again.

Forget version control, this absolute madlad is living on the edge with his entire codebase in Google Drive. That's not risk-taking, that's digital skydiving without a parachute! The sheer confidence of someone who's one sync error away from catastrophe is somehow... attractive? Next thing you know, he'll be telling her he deploys straight to production on Friday afternoons and doesn't write unit tests. Pure chaos energy.

OH MY GOD, look at what they've done to my beautiful monolithic dinner! 😱 They've taken what was once a glorious heap of mixed vegetables and LITERALLY DISMEMBERED IT into hundreds of tiny, isolated cubes! Sure, each little vegetable piece is now "independently scalable" and can "fail without bringing down the entire meal," but at what cost?! Now I need seventeen different microservices just to assemble one bite of what used to be a simple spoonful! The deployment complexity has increased by 800%, and the fork latency is THROUGH THE ROOF! This is what happens when the architecture team reads one Medium article and decides to revolutionize everything!

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Someone really looked at their codebase and said "let's make one class do literally everything." Entity, DTO, Domain Model, API Contract, AND Kafka Message? That's not code reuse, that's architectural Stockholm syndrome. Sure, you saved yourself from writing a few mappers, but now your database entity knows about your message broker, your API exposes internal IDs, and your domain logic is coupled to JSON serialization annotations. Good luck explaining to the new junior why changing a Kafka field breaks the database migration. The tears in that meme? Those are from the poor soul who has to refactor this nightmare six months later when requirements change. Separation of concerns died so you could avoid writing three extra classes.

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