Worlds Best Programmer Strikes Again

Ah yes, the "modern" software stack—where simplicity goes to die and your resume gets a steroid injection. What started as "I just want to build a website" has evolved into this technological fever dream where you need 47 different frameworks, 23 APIs, and a small data center just to display "Hello World." The real kicker? Half of these technologies will be deprecated by the time you finish reading this. Your frontend needs React, unless the client prefers Angular, or maybe Vue, or wait—is Flutter hot this week? Don't forget Tailwind because apparently regular CSS wasn't complicated enough. And look at that "optional" messaging layer that's somehow mandatory in every architecture review. Nothing says efficiency like having Kafka, RabbitMQ, and SQS all running simultaneously because different teams couldn't agree on which one to use. The best part? Some poor soul will have to maintain this Jenga tower of dependencies while management wonders why projects take so long to complete.

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