Bug Amnesia

Ah, the classic integer overflow but for... other measurements! The terminal shows someone entering "7" inches, but somehow the calculation throws a DickLengthError claiming it "cannot be negative." Either the algorithm subtracted from the wrong base value, or someone's been exaggerating by about 2³² units. The exit code -69420 is just the chef's kiss of juvenile programmer humor—combining the infamous "69" with "420" and making it negative for extra absurdity. This is basically what happens when you let engineers build dating apps.

Vibe coding is the developer equivalent of eating dessert first and wondering why dinner tastes bland. Sure, you get that dopamine hit watching your code "just work" without understanding why, but then production breaks at 2 PM on a Friday and you're staring at your own code like it's written in ancient Sumerian. The real kicker? You can't even explain what you did to your teammates during code review. "Yeah, so I just... vibed with it until the tests passed" doesn't exactly inspire confidence. It's the programming equivalent of that thing your parents warned you about—feels great in the moment, leaves you with regret and a codebase no one wants to touch. We've all been there though. Sometimes you just copy-paste from Stack Overflow, change three variable names, and call it a day. The shame is real, but so is the deadline.

Ah, the classic "new guy syndrome" where fresh blood joins the team and immediately wants to nuke the entire codebase from orbit because a function has one too many parameters. The meme perfectly captures that moment when you're desperately trying to stop the enthusiastic junior dev from replacing your battle-tested monolith with microservices written in whatever framework was trending on Hacker News this morning. Meanwhile, the rest of us are silently thinking: "Sure, let's rewrite 5 years of edge-case handling because you don't like our naming conventions. What could possibly go wrong?"

Content WHEN YOU NEED TO TEST IE IT'S THAT ONE LINE THAT'S CAUSING THE BUG

Content Me after I finally fix the one bug that broke everything: Did you fix it? Yes What did it cost? 16 hours

Content chrisk5000 chrisk5000 Almost made fun of an electrician today like "is it an electrician's guild rule that you have to perform 5 minutes of ritual complaining about What Was The Previous Electrician Thinking before you're allowed to fix anything?" but then I remembered I'm a software engineer 6:25 PM Nov 15, 2018 Twitter Web Client 586 Retweets 2.4K Likes