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When you spend days writing 500 lines of actual production code, you end up with a functional but humble little house that gets the job done. Meanwhile, some YouTuber whips up 50 lines in a tutorial and somehow produces an architectural masterpiece that makes your code look like it was drawn with crayons. The cruel reality every developer faces: spending hours optimizing your code only to watch someone create something 10x more impressive in a fraction of the time... in a video that conveniently skips all the debugging parts.

Content Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer of the Apollo Project, stands next to the code she wrote by hand and that was used to take humanity to the moon. 1969

The programming paradigm hierarchy in its natural habitat! Data-oriented folks stand tall and proud at the top of the food chain. Object-oriented programmers cling desperately to the middle ground, while those return-oriented programmers... well, they're basically just lurking in the shadows waiting to exploit buffer overflows and hijack execution flow. The secret fourth paradigm not pictured: functional programmers who are too busy explaining monads to fit in the frame.

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Python developers when faced with implementing proper static typing: *sweats profusely and grabs 25 more cards* Let's be honest, we'd rather import an entire dependency ecosystem than write def get_user(user_id: int) -> User ourselves. Why spend 10 minutes learning Python's built-in typing when you can spend 3 hours debugging Pydantic validation errors instead? It's the Python way!

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