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Content My realtime system right now 186 debug print statements adding the perfect amount of delays

The most honest programming statistic you'll ever see. Turns out the "coding" part of being a developer is just the appetizer before the main course of self-loathing and regret. Nothing quite captures the developer experience like spending an entire day writing beautiful code, only to spend the rest of the week deleting it line by line while muttering "what was I thinking?" under your breath. The circle of developer life: write, regret, delete, repeat. It's not a bug, it's a feature of our existence.

Content How I Feel . Complete the sentences to show how you leel about bugs. Bugs make me leel LAC ) When I see a bug, I soy nthing ( Complete the picture to show an expression you might make when you see a bug. )

Asking "Is the server up?" and getting "Well, it was working yesterday but then Dave pushed some changes and now it's giving a 502 sometimes but only on Tuesdays" is the digital equivalent of asking if someone wants coffee and getting their life story. Boolean questions expect true/false answers, not a novel-length string that requires three scrolls and a therapist to process. The face says it all—that moment of silent suffering we all experience waiting for the simple "yes" or "no" that will never come.

Content Was sitting in a video conference with RD, Product Management, Sales, etc, and on one point, RD said the new feature is not ready to roll out due to a few bugs on which the Product Manager replayed "then deleted them! We need to roll it out!" This was literally the face of anyone understanding anything about programming

The evolution of every senior developer's relationship with bugs: First, you're naive. "I'll fix this bug right away!" you declare with the enthusiasm of someone who still believes in clean code. Then comes the bargaining phase. "It's not a bug if I can't reproduce it. Must be user error." *closes ticket* Finally, enlightenment: "That weird behavior when you click exactly 7 times while holding Shift? Yeah, that's a 'feature' we totally planned. Find it in the documentation we'll write someday." Ten years in and I've mastered all three stages before my morning coffee.