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Content ASKING AIRCRAFT DESIGNERS ABOUT AIRPLANE SAFETY: NOTHING IS EVER FOOLPROOF, BUT MODERN AIRLINERS ARE INCREDIBLY RESILIENT. FLYING IS THE SAFEST WAY TO TRAVEL. ASKING BUILDING ENGINEERS ABOUT ELEVATOR SAFETY: ELEVATORS ARE PROTECTED BY MULTIPLE TRIED-AND-TESTED FAILSAFE MECHANISMS. THEY'RE NEARLY INCAPABLE OF FALLING. ASKING SOFTWARE ENGINEERS ABOUT COMPUTERIZED VOTING: THAT'S TERRIFYING. WAIT, REALLY? DON'T TRUST VOTING SOFTWARE AND DON'T LISTEN TO ANYONE WHO TELLS YOU ITS SAFE. WHY? I DON'T QUITE KNOW HOW TO PUT THIS, BUT OUR ENTIRE FIELD IS BAD AT WHAT WE DO, AND IF YOU RELY ON US, EVERYONE WILL DIE. THEY SAY THEY'VE FIXED IT WITH SOMETHING CALLED "BLOCKCHAIN" AAAAA!!! WHATEVER THEY SOLD YOU, DON'T TOUCH IT. BURY IT IN THE DESERT.' WEAR GLOVES.

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The eternal programmer's pendulum. One minute you're crafting elegant code that would make the gods weep, convinced you're a programming deity who should be giving TED talks. The next minute you're frantically Googling "how to center a div" for the 500th time, certain you've fooled everyone into thinking you know what you're doing. That metronome swinging wildly between "I could rewrite the Linux kernel over lunch" and "I have no idea what I'm doing" is the quintessential developer experience. And somehow it happens multiple times before your morning coffee even kicks in.

When your code doesn't work, the logical approach is to copy and paste it. When that fails, the truly sophisticated approach is to frantically copy the same thing multiple times before pasting it, as if the clipboard might suddenly decide to work better after the fifth Ctrl+C. The clipboard anxiety is real. Nothing says "I've completely lost control of my development process" quite like hammering Ctrl+C like you're trying to send an SOS in clipboard Morse code.