Snap Back To Reality

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Snap Back To Reality

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Nothing kills a developer's zen state faster than a senior engineer appearing with "real work" to do. Junior dev is vibing with his aesthetic setup, probably writing some clean React components, feeling like a 10x engineer. Then reality hits: a legacy C++ module with potential memory leaks that needs manual debugging—no fancy AI tools, no Stack Overflow copy-paste, just raw pointer arithmetic and segfaults.

The best part? Senior takes a 2-hour tea break while junior stares at undefined behavior for 6 hours. That's not mentorship, that's hazing with extra steps. Also, the username "@forgot_to_kill_ec2" is chef's kiss—nothing says "us-east-1 Survivor" quite like accidentally leaving AWS instances running and watching your bill go from $50 to $5000.

From lo-fi beats to low-level nightmares in one conversation. The flow state didn't just die—it got deallocated without a proper destructor call.

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