You Can't Stop Me

The code shows a variable named ps for a ParticleSystem . Above it are ASCII art comments that look suspiciously like the PlayStation logo. Some developer couldn't resist the urge to add this Easter egg when they saw "PS" – because apparently professional codebases need more corporate logos drawn in ASCII. Management probably thinks this increases shareholder value.

The modern tech stack visualized as the world's most precarious Jenga tower! At the very bottom, we have "ELECTRICITY" holding up literally everything - because let's face it, without it we're all just cavemen with MacBooks. The foundation includes Linus Torvalds, IBM, TSMC, and "K&R" (Kernighan and Ritchie, the C language creators) - you know, just the people who INVENTED MODERN COMPUTING, no big deal. Above them, C developers writing dynamic arrays because apparently we still haven't solved that problem after 50 years. Then we've got AWS, libcURL, and the Linux Foundation supporting everything while "unpaid open-source developers" hold up critical infrastructure. Meanwhile, Rust devs are off in their own rocket doing "their thing" while that one C++ project based on "undefined behavior" somehow keeps things running. The middle is pure chaos - web devs "sabotaging themselves" with an ever-growing tower of frameworks, a random Angry Bird labeled "whatever Microsoft is doing," and the cherry on top? A literal cloud labeled "lore accurate cloud server." And somehow this Frankenstein's monster powers everything from nuclear plants to "cookies for fish." The future is now, and it's terrifying!

Microsoft's ambitious plan to nuke every line of C/C++ from their codebase by 2030 using AI is giving major "we'll rewrite it in Rust next quarter" vibes, except with a budget that could buy a small country. The highlighted goals are absolutely wild: eliminate decades of battle-tested code and somehow have 1 engineer rewrite 1 million lines in 1 month. Because nothing says "stable production environment" like AI-generated code at scale, right? The real kicker here is the confidence level. They're building "powerful infrastructure" and "scalable graphs" to accomplish what they themselves call a "previously unimaginable task." Translation: they're throwing AI at a problem that probably doesn't need solving, but hey, it's 2024 and if you're not using AI for everything, are you even a tech company? Can't wait to see the bug reports when AI decides to "optimize" some critical kernel code.

You know something's wrong when your code compiles on the first try. Either you've ascended to a higher plane of existence, or you're about to discover a runtime error so catastrophic it'll make you wish for the comfort of syntax errors. That moment of "inner peace" lasts exactly 3 seconds before the paranoia kicks in and you start frantically checking if you accidentally commented out half your codebase. Spoiler: it runs perfectly, which means it's definitely cursed.

The initial excitement of "LEARN C++ IN ONE VIDEO" quickly dissolves into horror when you notice the video length: 2:52 / 35040:04 . That's right—nearly four years of continuous playback! The facial expressions perfectly capture that moment when you realize mastering pointers, memory management, and template metaprogramming isn't quite the quick weekend project you'd hoped for. The background text listing concepts like "Constructors Destructors" and "Static Encapsulation" is just the compiler rubbing salt in your segmentation fault.

HR interviewer asks what this code prints, and honestly? Same energy as asking "where do you see yourself in five years?" Nobody knows, nobody wants to figure it out, and the correct answer is probably "somewhere else." This is peak technical interview theater. The code is intentionally obfuscated garbage with single-letter variables, nested loops, random conditionals, and what appears to be an attempt to summon a daemon. It's the programming equivalent of asking someone to translate ancient Sumerian while standing on one leg. The real skill being tested here isn't "can you trace this code" but "can you maintain a professional smile while internally screaming." Spoiler: it probably prints underscores and dots in some pattern. Or segfaults. Either way, you're not getting hired based on this answer.