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Content Booom! Look at that! Who's the Jedi master here? Ugh. ..and he fixed it? Well done No no. not quite What's going on? We've been stuck on a bug for 2 hours... The bug is still there, but now the error message is different Ahh!! it feels great to finallu make progress CommitStrip.com

Content LLMs one prompt after asking them to debug the code they just wrote:

The eternal developer purgatory: staring at an error message that might as well be written in ancient Sumerian. "Bad argument on line 237" — thanks for narrowing it down to just the entire function. Modern languages with their PhDs and billions in funding still can't tell you what you did wrong without making you feel like you're decoding the Enigma. Sure, let's spend 3 hours debugging what turns out to be a missing semicolon. Totally reasonable use of my finite existence on this planet.

First panel: AI reaching for a beautiful painting on the wall, representing our dreams of intelligent systems creating magnificent art. Second panel: Reality hits with a wall of if(){} statements. That's right folks, behind the curtain of every "AI" product your CEO is hyping up is just a glorified chain of conditional logic some poor dev had to write at 1 AM while questioning their career choices. Seven years of computer science education to write if(user_says_hello) return "Hello there!" but with better variable names.

Refactoring legacy code is like cutting down a tree while standing on it. You're hacking away at "dead code" that's somehow supporting the entire system. One minute you're confidently swinging that axe, the next you're in a production outage wondering why removing that "useless" function broke everything. The best part? The commit message will just read "cleaned up code" as if you didn't just bring down the entire forest.

Content Vote Similar to rProgrammerHumor rBikiniBottomTwitter Posted by uCreativestName69420 2 hours ago E Success 20 Comments Award ( Share Save Join When you finish fixing something and now it no longer works