Every Freaking Time

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Content Software Development Process 0. Something is wrong 1. Investigation stage 2. I can't fix this 3. Questions career choice 4. Questions life choices 5. Oh! A typo. Cool codegino

The box of horrors that contains your legacy code from 2 years ago. You'd rather lose a limb than have to maintain that spaghetti nightmare you wrote when you were "just getting it to work." Nothing induces more existential dread than having to revisit your own documentation-free code with variable names like 'temp1', 'temp2', and the classic 'finalVersionForReal'. The code still runs somehow, but touch it and the entire system implodes. Your past self is your current self's worst enemy.

Content Sometimes my code is like this. Don't know, what it does. But i am scared to delete.

When you've been staring at the same error message for 3 hours, a new one feels like winning the lottery. The bar is so low that we celebrate not fixing the problem, but merely breaking it in a different way. That desk full of crumpled papers and empty coffee cups? That's not desperation—that's the natural habitat of a developer making "progress." Remember kids, in debugging, moving sideways is still moving!

Content Junior dev watching senior dev copying the error message, pasting on Google, and opening the first StackOverflow link