Don't Be Stuck In The Past

You use if statements with spaces after the keyword. I use the proper syntax with no space. That stern look isn't just for show—it's the face of someone who's saved kilobytes across a career by eliminating unnecessary whitespace. Ten years from now, when your codebase is 17KB larger than mine for no functional benefit, you'll understand. Efficiency isn't just about algorithms; it's a lifestyle.

THE AUDACITY! I literally just declared a variable—JUST NOW—and the compiler is already throwing a tantrum like an overprotective parent?! 🙄 "What would you say you do here?" EXCUSE ME?! I'm still TYPING, you impatient digital dictator! Heaven forbid I get more than 0.16 SECONDS to finish my thought before you start questioning my entire existence as a programmer! This is why developers have trust issues and caffeine addictions, people!

When you spent years mastering tree inversions in C++ with all those pointer gymnastics, memory leaks, and segmentation faults only to watch some kid ask ChatGPT to do it in 5 seconds. The audacity. The betrayal. Back in my day, we debugged with print statements and cried silently into our mechanical keyboards.

Ah, the classic programmer's solution to avoiding C and Rust—just go for pizza instead! After 15 years in the industry, I've learned that sometimes the best programming language is whatever's on the menu. Memory management giving you nightmares? Pointer errors making you question your career choices? Just order a Margherita and pretend those problems don't exist. The pizza-driven development methodology: where the only garbage collection you need to worry about is clearing your plate.

The duality of a programmer's YouTube watch later playlist is painfully real. On one side, a video titled "Don't do it" with a noose thumbnail – the perfect metaphor for how we feel about diving into pointers. On the other, a 3+ hour C/C++ pointer course we've been "meaning to watch" for 4 years. The universe is telling us something: learning pointers is simultaneously essential and soul-crushing. That course will stay unwatched until approximately 3 AM the night before a critical project deadline when we suddenly decide it's the perfect time for professional development.

That smug feeling when you post a "help me fix this code" question on a C++ forum, but it's actually a homework assignment you're trying to get solved for free. Those poor souls thinking they're helping a fellow developer in need, when they're really just doing your assignment. The digital equivalent of tricking someone into carrying your furniture because you told them you're "just rearranging things."