I Just Mute All Notifications

Content Working Software The jar files that Vivek. the sys-admin, copied into the cluster to hot-fix the production release that brought down the web site. The family meal that Beth, the SRE, missed having to work late to reconcile the CICD pipeline with the hot-fix Vivek made. WHAT YOU SEE WHAT YOW DON'T SEE The weekend that Megan, the Senior Developer, spent fixing code that Jerry, the Junior Developer, left behind when he quit in a huff. The 3 hour argument that the dev-lead had with the product manager trying to avoid corrupting the app's API. Rock) 2019

Content Chris Albon chrisalbon Follow Software engineering pro-tip: Do not, I repeat, do not deploy this week. That is how you end up debugging a critical issue from your parent's wifi in your old bedroom while vour spouse hates vou for abandoning them with your racist uncle. 8:49 PM - 19 Dec 2017

The quill pen of yesterday becomes the AI assistant of today. In the original scene, Harry writes "My name is Harry Potter" and Tom Riddle's diary responds. Now it's ChatGPT introducing itself instead - completing the perfect metaphor for modern programming. Ten years ago we'd spend hours debugging regex. Now we just ask an AI to write it. Magic? Maybe. But like Tom Riddle's diary, I can't help wondering what part of our soul we're trading for this convenience. Remember when we had to actually understand how things worked? Those were dark times. Terrible, yes... but great.

OH. MY. GOD. Someone actually wrote a C++ program where they defined EVERYTHING as variations of "e"! The absolute AUDACITY! 😱 This diabolical genius replaced every single keyword with an increasing number of 'e's - from namespaces to while loops to RETURN STATEMENTS! It's like watching someone deliberately choose violence against every code reviewer on the planet. And the poor soul in the corner with the microphone? That's the exact face I make when I have to maintain someone else's "creative" code. Pure, unadulterated suffering. This isn't programming - it's psychological warfare!

DARLING, the AUDACITY! 💅 Developer swoops in with the classic "it's expected behavior" defense while making intense eye contact with the tester who's basically BEGGING for proof. The tester's face is SCREAMING "citation needed" while the dev is serving "trust me bro" realness. It's that magical moment when documentation is nowhere to be found and requirements are apparently written in invisible ink! The ultimate developer escape hatch - if you can't prove it's wrong, I'll just declare it right by divine coding intervention!

Content Compiler: throws errors Me: retry to compile anyway Compiler: Wanna see me do it again?