AI Cannot Replace Him

That thousand-yard stare of a developer who just hit "Rebuild All" right before a meeting. Now he's trapped in his own personal prison, watching helplessly as his CPU melts, fans scream, and battery drains faster than his will to live. The compiler is probably still on file 3 of 9,457. He's calculating whether he has time to get coffee, update his resume, or possibly move to a new country before it finishes.

The first two panels show our protagonist happily accepting normal entry point functions in Rust and C/C++. "Yeah, that makes sense!" she cheerfully exclaims. Then panel three hits with Python's bizarre if __name__ == '__main__': pattern - the cursed incantation every Python dev has blindly copy-pasted a thousand times without questioning why we need this arcane check just to run a damn script. And that final panel? Pure existential horror. Seven years into my career and I still type this abomination with muscle memory while silently wondering who hurt the Python designers.

OH. MY. GOD. The AUDACITY of this C programmer flexing their ability to write "Hello World" without including the standard I/O library! 😱 For the uninitiated peasants: in C programming, #include <stdio.h> is basically THE library you need to do basic input/output operations like printing text. Writing code without it is like showing up to a gunfight with a homemade slingshot that YOU BUILT FROM SCRATCH. The other fish is just DESTROYED by this flex. Absolutely annihilated. This is the programming equivalent of someone casually mentioning they climbed Everest "on their lunch break." Pure savagery in the C programming world!

Oh my goodness, this is TOO REAL ! 😂 C header files are like that friendly neighbor who just tells you what they can do. But C++ header files? They're that chaotic friend who shows up with their entire life story, template metaprogramming nightmares, and 17 nested namespaces! You open one expecting a simple interface and suddenly you're staring into the void of implementation details that would make Cthulhu weep. Every C++ developer knows that feeling when you include one innocent header and your compile time suddenly jumps to "maybe finish before the heat death of the universe." The header should include interface only... but C++ had other plans!

The universal hatred for CMake transcends all intelligence levels! The meme shows an IQ bell curve with people at every point—from 55 to 145—united in their collective trauma of writing CMakeLists.txt files at 3AM while sobbing uncontrollably. The "well ackchyually" guy at the bottom represents that one teammate who claims to understand CMake but still copy-pastes from StackOverflow like the rest of us. Nothing brings C++ developers together like the shared existential dread of finding yourself in dependency hell with zero documentation. It's the build system we all use and absolutely nobody enjoys!

Oh. My. GOODNESS. The absolute TRAGEDY of C++ mastery captured in its full horrifying glory! 😱 Our poor protagonist starts as a sweet innocent programmer, only to be CONSUMED by the dark arts of pointers and memory management! Those horns? They're not fashion - they're the physical manifestation of the DEMONIC KNOWLEDGE required to tame C++! And that final panel? DEVASTATING! "How long was I gone?" Our hero emerges from their C++ enlightenment only to discover they've sacrificed YEARS of their life to the language gods! Their friends and family? GONE! Their youth? VANISHED! All for the ability to manually manage memory and argue about template metaprogramming at parties! The price of power is steep, darlings. C++ doesn't just take your time - it takes your SOUL! 💀