Been There

The bell curve of software development wisdom strikes again! The middle 68% of developers are frantically learning 20+ programming languages and frameworks, convinced they need to build custom apps for everything. Meanwhile, the geniuses at both extremes of the IQ spectrum share the same profound insight: "Just use Excel." After 15 years in the industry, I've watched countless teams spend months building complex systems that could've been a spreadsheet with some macros. The real 10x developer isn't the one who knows Rust, Go, and TypeScript—it's the one who realizes your "revolutionary inventory management system" is just a glorified table with math.

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The circle of programming life is brutal. First panel: a fresh-faced beginner in 2025 desperately seeking validation—"Hey does anyone need me?"—while everyone's just like "NAH" and "NO." Fast forward to panel three where suddenly someone needs them... but plot twist! It's to maintain a Microsoft Access database. That final panel with the lightning and demonic glow says everything about inheriting legacy tech. Nothing crushes the soul quite like realizing your shiny CS degree prepared you for... MS Access. The career trajectory we all fear but somehow keep encountering.

Content Forcing users to make their passwords longer Just switching to Webauthn-only login since basically everything supports it by now

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