Debugging Is Cool

Oh. My. GOD. The absolute TRAUMA of junior development in one perfect image! 😱 There's our poor, innocent Jr Dev having an existential crisis about remembering what their code actually does, while the Sr Dev - with their distinguished salt-and-pepper hair and that INFURIATING mustache of wisdom - just casually drops the most terrifying truth bomb in software engineering history! "That's the neat part. You don't." EXCUSE ME?! Are you telling me we're all just throwing spaghetti at digital walls and HOPING it sticks?! The audacity! The honesty! The horrifying accuracy! This is why documentation was invented, people - because our code is basically a mysterious ancient artifact the moment after we write it!

Content me, at Zam, realizing how to solve THE bug from the morning

The paranoia is real. Nothing says "trust issues" like wrapping your calculator in parentheses just to make absolutely sure it calculates 2+3*4 as 2+(3*4) instead of (2+3)*4. That's the difference between getting 14 and 20, and I'm not taking any chances with my code logic. The calculator says it follows PEMDAS, but do I believe it? Absolutely not. Those extra parentheses are basically the programming equivalent of wearing both a belt AND suspenders.

Content My Brain : "Let's write each step separately, it'll make the code more readable" My Code 3

Content : Anonymous 011424(Sun)00:30:43 No.98435111 OK let's learn C make a new project in visual studio turns out thats not the correct way to do it because then it's not cross platform and i can't switch editors 280 KB JPG later start learning make, realize it's a clusterfuck of retardation but somehow copy paste something together that compiles turns out it's not the correct way to do it, the "modern" way is that you need to use premake to generate make files which then generate the visual studio solution :) ok let's write code.. wait, i have to write header files? you mean i have to have double the code for no reason other than the C build system being garbage? i want to parse a small json config file, it doesnt have to be performant. wait, how the fuck do i add libraries to my project? ok, so i have to add them and update them manually like a caveman or i have to do some git submoduling cancer, or i can use this package manager called conan that doesn't work half the time. run program - crashes that's fine it happens during development all the time let's read the helpful error message and fix what we did wrong "an error has occured" ProdrammerHumor.io

Top frame: a pristine school bus on tracks, representing your in-house team's meticulously crafted code. Bottom frame: same bus getting absolutely demolished by a train - that's what happens when management decides to save a few bucks by hiring the cheapest offshore devs they could find on Fiverr. Nothing says "technical debt" quite like watching your beautiful architecture get flattened by someone who thinks "code documentation" means adding random comments in broken English. The project timeline just went from "on schedule" to "we're completely derailed."