Ah, the eternal quest for speed. Cheetahs? Fast. Airplanes? Faster. Speed of light? Impressive. But nothing—and I mean nothing—breaks the sound barrier quite like that app you rewrote from Python to C++.
After weeks of replacing those cozy, readable Python lines with pointer arithmetic and memory management nightmares, your application now runs so fast it's practically time-traveling. Sure, it took 10x longer to develop and the codebase is now an impenetrable fortress of segfaults waiting to happen, but hey—look at that progress bar maxed out!
Worth every sleepless night debugging those memory leaks. Totally.