I Was About To Have Lunch

Content Python Developer measuring out the location of a whitespace error, 2022 colorized

Content "I'm basically creating AG -- can't debug a for loop "My app uses cutting-edge ML" - it's it-else statements all the way down AI APPS PROGRAMMER "Our Al can predict the stock "Our chatbot passes the Turing market" - accuracy worse than a test" - its just aPT-3 with extra coin lip steps "We're disrupting the industry" reinvented to- do list app 5,372 "I'm revolutionizing healthcare" -- made a BMI calculator "we don't need comments, the code is self- explanatory" - - spaghetti code nightmare "AI wIll solve climate change" .. can't figure out how to center a div PAIPRODUCT HIVE

The first panel shows the face of resignation we all wear when starting yet another YouTube coding tutorial. You're already mentally preparing for the inevitable "but it works on my machine" moment when your code crashes spectacularly. Then comes the second panel – that moment of pure shock when the code actually runs . No dependency hell. No version mismatches. No mysterious errors from packages that were updated yesterday. Just... working code? It's like finding a unicorn in your backyard. The shock isn't from failure – it's from success against all statistical probability. Your brain simply doesn't know how to process this violation of the universal constants.

When you push to production on Friday at 4:55 PM and then immediately go on a dinner date. Nothing says romance like frantically refreshing your phone for Slack notifications between appetizers. The Russian restaurant sign in the background roughly translates to "emergency rescue service" which is exactly what your team will need by dessert.

The eternal truth of tech work laid bare. That wide-eyed panic isn't from caffeine—it's the silent terror of knowing you're one Stack Overflow outage away from complete incompetence. Ten years into my career and I'm still copying code snippets and praying they work. The real senior developer skill? Knowing which things to Google. The junior asks "how to center a div," but the senior asks "why is my Kubernetes cluster on fire at 3am and which config file do I sacrifice to the daemon to make it stop?"

Content Shaundai Person shaundai Pro tip: use clickbait commit messages to get your teammates to review your code faster git commit -m "First she noticed a bug in production. What happens next will SHOCK vou!" 7:56 AM Dec 1, 2022 96 Retweets 10 Ouote Tweets 785 Likes