Ancestral Debugging Disappointment

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Next time you feel guilty about your janky code that somehow works, remember we're all just making rocks do math. Silicon, flattened and zapped with electricity, now solves complex algorithms because we said so. Your hacky solution is just continuing the grand tradition of tricking minerals into thinking.

Same word, two entirely different emotional states. Biology majors get excited studying fascinating creatures with exoskeletons and compound eyes. Meanwhile, CS majors stare into the abyss of undefined behavior with thousand-yard stares, wondering why their code that worked perfectly yesterday suddenly decided to implode today. The only thing evolving in our code is the bugs—they're getting smarter while we're losing sanity.

The duality of programmer confidence is brutal. Solo coding? You're basically the Hulk of software engineering—unstoppable, crushing bugs with your bare hands, refactoring entire codebases before breakfast. But the moment someone peers over your shoulder? Suddenly you're typing with your elbows, forgetting how to declare variables, and googling "how to exit vim" for the 500th time. The cognitive processing power required to both code AND maintain the illusion that you know what you're doing is mathematically impossible. It's like Schrödinger's developer—simultaneously brilliant and clueless until observed.

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