One More Fix

Ah, the programmer's eternal dilemma, elegantly captured in just two lines! The pro: that magical flow state where you're dancing with algorithms and building digital castles. The con: suddenly realizing the birds are chirping and the sun is about to rise. 4:31AM isn't just a timestamp—it's a badge of honor and a cry for help rolled into one. The perfect representation of how coding warps spacetime around you until "just one more bug fix" teleports you to dawn. Sleep is for the weak... and the well-adjusted.

Content Matt Fernandez FattMernandez 80 of being an adult is trying to fix what you fucked up before anyone finds out you fucked up. 71018, 1:38 PM

The eternal CSS unit struggle claims another victim! Type "200px" for a nice, predictable border width... but hit "200em" and suddenly your eyebrows are consuming half the viewport. That's not responsive design, that's responsive disaster. The difference between "looks fine on my machine" and "summoning social services" is literally one character. And they wonder why frontend developers drink.

The eternal cycle of developer hubris! First panel: "I'm gonna build this from scratch because libraries are for WEAKLINGS." Second panel: "Let me just quickly Google how to actually do this..." Third panel: *silent realization that this is way harder than expected* Fourth panel: *frantically copy-pasting Stack Overflow answers while questioning life choices* Nothing humbles you faster than attempting to reinvent the wheel only to discover the wheel requires calculus, physics, and three programming languages you don't know. And yet we keep doing it. Why? Because we're developers and pain is our love language.

The great AI revolution has arrived... or has it? On the left, we have the muscular "Expectation" Doge representing those grandiose AI promises: code generators so powerful they'll make human developers obsolete! On the right, there's the pathetic "Reality" Doge – the actual AI that can't even handle a simple "Hello World" program without hallucinating semicolons. Meanwhile, executives who dumped "gazillion dollars" into AI development are frantically laying off actual programmers to cover their bad investment. Because nothing says "our AI strategy is working perfectly" like firing the people who could fix the AI's broken code. The corporate playbook never changes: overpromise, underdeliver, then blame the humans. At least the shareholders will feel better about those quarterly losses!

Content Hays Stanford haysstanford 24 Feb Tell me you are a developer without saying 'I'm a developer." 689 17 202 1,115 Tarek Jellali 3 tarekjellali Replying to haysstanford Roses are red, Violets are blue, Unexpected token at line 42. 20:50 24 Feb 21 Twitter for Android