Every Programmer's Captcha Nightmare

Junior dev: "Is it normal that the codebase is so difficult to work in?" Senior dev: *stares into the void with thousand-yard gaze* "Years of tight deadlines, changing requirements, and revolving door of developers creates this beautiful disaster. Successful software either dies a hero or lives long enough to become legacy code that you'll maintain until retirement." The brutal truth no CS degree prepares you for: technical debt is the REAL company debt. Your inheritance won't be wealth—it'll be 15-year-old spaghetti code with comments like "TODO: fix this before release" from 2009.

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Content Friend: Hey you're like an engineer right? Me: Yeah software engineer. Friend: Great, there's something wrong with my refrigerator can you fix it? Me: ??? ???

The eternal duality of coding: questioning reality in both failure and success. First panel: code fails, you're baffled because it should work. Second panel: code suddenly works, you're equally baffled because you changed absolutely nothing. The universe runs on spite and cosmic randomness, not logic. That feeling when your computer gaslights you harder than your ex.

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!

The fearless warrior of code, unfazed by bugs, deadlines, or production incidents, suddenly trembles at the sight of a CORS error. That insidious beast that appears when your frontend tries to talk to an API on a different domain, and the server says "Nope, not authorized!" Even the bravest developers curl into a fetal position when faced with the dreaded Access-Control-Allow-Origin header issues. It's not the error that's scary—it's the rabbit hole of proxies, headers, and server configurations you're about to dive into for the next 3 hours.