How I Fix Stuff Working In IT

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Content Just because I'm a programmer doesn't mean I can fix your printer I can fix it POT I mean.. But not because I'm a programmer

OH. MY. GOD. The AUDACITY of GitHub Copilot! 😤 You're sitting there BEGGING this AI to write a simple function and it's like "hmm, I don't quite understand what you want" while you're SCREAMING at your screen! Just show me the freaking code I'm trying to write instead of making me describe it in 47 different ways! It's like trying to explain a recipe to someone who keeps asking "but what IS flour?" JUST WRITE THE DARN CODE ALREADY! I've spent more time trying to get Copilot to understand what I want than it would have taken to write the whole program myself! The digital equivalent of trying to give directions to someone who keeps turning down the radio because they "see with their ears." 💀

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.

The forbidden refactoring journey we've all embarked on! One minute you're celebrating functional code (which probably contains 17 hacks and workarounds you've forgotten about), and the next minute you're diving into "clean code" territory. Suddenly your compiler unleashes 258 bugs that were peacefully hibernating in your spaghetti logic. The final panel perfectly captures that moment of existential dread when you realize you'll be spending your weekend undoing all your "improvements." Pro tip: Version control exists for a reason, folks!

Non-programmers think we're building fancy 3D holograms of the Earth like we're some kind of tech wizards from a sci-fi movie. Meanwhile, the reality is us hunched over terminals writing ASCII donut code at 3AM, fueled by energy drinks and existential dread. The pinnacle of our achievement? Making a spinning donut in C that looks like it was rendered on a calculator from 1982. And we're absurdly proud of it. The gap between perception and reality has never been wider—or more delicious.