The Things People Ask Google For

The career progression of a CS grad who never quite made it. Algorithms? Blank stare. Database systems? Dead inside. But show them a joke about semicolons and suddenly they're a technical genius. It's the programming equivalent of only understanding sports through memes about referees being blind.

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Someone discovers Redis exists and suddenly they're the messiah of performance optimization. Database taking 200ms to respond? Cache it. API call taking too long? Cache it. User's name? Believe it or not, also cache. Never mind that you now have a distributed system with cache invalidation problems—the two hardest things in computer science after naming things and off-by-one errors. Fast forward three months and nobody knows what data is real anymore, but hey, those response times look incredible on the dashboard.

The sweet, sweet embrace of relational databases after spending months in NoSQL hell. You swore MongoDB was the future, but now you're crawling back to PostgreSQL like a desperate ex. "Please take me back, I promise I'll normalize my tables this time." Nothing says "I've grown as a person" quite like appreciating foreign key constraints after trying to manually join documents across collections. The NoSQL hangover is real.

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That thousand-yard stare when you realize the AI you've been vibing with just casually mentioned your database is exposed to the internet. Security? What security? Observability? Yeah, we can observe everyone accessing our data. Concurrency? Sure, the entire world is concurrently reading our secrets. Data loss? Don't worry about losing data when everyone already has a copy. The "vibe coder" energy is real—just keep prompting ChatGPT until it generates something that compiles, ship it to production, and hope nobody asks too many questions. Who needs security audits when you have vibes? This is what happens when you let the AI write your infrastructure code after telling it to "just make it work, bro."