Bugs And Taxes Are Certain

Content Me staring at my bug infested codebase as the urge to move to the countryside and become a farmer grows stronger ProdrammerHumor.io

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The eternal question from management: "Why pay engineers when Stack Overflow is free?" The answer is brutally simple. Copying code: $1. Knowing which code won't crash your production server at 2AM: $100,000/year. The real skill isn't typing—it's knowing which StackOverflow answer won't summon demons through your USB ports.

Remember the ancient art of writing code from your own brain? That mythical skill where you actually memorize syntax instead of copy-pasting from Stack Overflow? The meme perfectly captures that rare moment of pride when you manage to write a whole 10 lines of functioning code without frantically Googling "how to center a div" or "javascript array methods cheatsheet" for the 500th time. In 2023, writing even a simple for-loop without external assistance feels like honest work worthy of a humble farmer's pride. The neural pathways that once stored actual programming knowledge have been replaced with search query optimization skills.

Ah yes, the classic "let's handle years with a switch statement" approach. Some poor developer back in 1999 was like: switch(year) {   case 2020: // pandemic mode   case 2021: // still pandemic   case 2022: // recovery mode   case 2023: // normal-ish   case 2024: // election chaos   // TODO: add more years later   default: trainControl.panic(); } And then they quit, got promoted, or died before anyone remembered to add 2025. Twenty-five years after Y2K and we're still writing software like time is a finite concept. This is why we can't have nice things... or functioning trains, apparently.

Ah yes, the sacred "git commit -m 'just married'" moment every developer dreams of! Nothing says "till death do us part" like submitting a pull request during your first dance. Casey here has achieved peak work-life integration—emphasis on the no life part. His wife probably thought "in sickness and in health" didn't include "debugging in formal wear." The only thing he's pushing tonight is code, not boundaries. Somewhere, a project manager is adding "doesn't understand basic human milestones" to Casey's performance review.