It Was Only Two Lines

Content Walf walfieee Follow escape room concept: - you are a software engineer - there is a production issue related to a legacy codebase - no one knows how it works - various credentials are scattered around the office on post-it notes -there's some printouts of git diffs - you have an hour to fix this 5:36 am - 18 Jan 2018 6,627 Retweets 14,204 Likes 356 17 6.6K 14K

The modern developer's secret weapon: copy-pasting AI-generated code without understanding a single line of it. Nothing says "senior engineer" like frantically Googling what your own code does when someone asks about it. The best part? That magical moment when you realize you've been confidently deploying code that you've essentially been taking dictation on. "It validates form data" is just fancy speak for "I have absolutely no idea what this eldritch horror does but it hasn't crashed production yet."

Content robin dreamsofsloth the first thing our new hire did was fix a bug that's been bugging him forever as a user prior to joining. he then breathed a sigh of relief and submitted his two weeks' notice. wtf??

The innocent words "just gonna do a quick little refactor" have claimed another victim. What starts as a simple code cleanup inevitably spirals into a time-warping vortex where you're suddenly fixing "one more thing" until the office is dark and your Slack status has been "away" for 6 hours. The worst part? You'll do it again next week. Some developers say sleep is just an inefficient way to code anyway.

Content 88 I'm from Canada, but live in the States now. It took me a while to get used to writing boolean variables with an "Is prefix, instead of the "Eh" suffix that Canadians use when programming For example: MyObj.IsVisible Myobj.visibleth share edited Oct 25 '11 at 21:35 community wiki 2 revs, 2 users 94 AlishahNovin 21 This is a joke, right? - Philip Jun 10 '11 at 19:09

Ah, the classic programmer paradox: Save 0.3 seconds typing "cnt" instead of "count" only to waste 2 hours debugging why your function is mysteriously failing. The docstring is right there screaming the answer too! Nothing like the smug satisfaction of typing fewer characters followed by the soul-crushing realization that your keyboard shortcut just cost you an entire evening. This is why code reviews exist - to catch you before you abbreviate yourself into debugging hell.