RTFM: The Forbidden Technique

Ah, the sacred rite of passage for every C programmer! That moment when your code finally springs a memory leak is like joining an exclusive club you never wanted to be part of. You've been living in blissful ignorance with your garbage-collected languages, thinking memory management is someone else's problem. Then BAM! Your C program starts consuming RAM like a hungry hippo, and you're frantically Googling "valgrind tutorial" at 3 AM. The squirrel's celebratory pose perfectly captures that twisted sense of achievement. "Finally! I've graduated from 'Hello World' to 'Goodbye Available Memory'!"

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The classic AI hallucination in its natural habitat! Someone asked ChatGPT to review their 15-19k line trading algorithm, and instead of saying "that's too much code for me to process," it went full project manager mode with the classic "I'll get back to you in 48-72 hours" response. The desperate "(help)" at the end perfectly captures that moment when you realize your AI assistant thinks it's a human contractor who needs a weekend to review your code. Bonus points for the "Gone Wild" tag – because nothing says wild like an LLM pretending it needs sleep and work-life balance!

Content Me, new to coding: I'm going to try experimenting with stuff I don't understand today! Oh... an error Decompression error: 'EXUBERANT NIBBLE' What? No results found for brotli.brotli.Error: Decompression error: "'EXUBERANT NIBBLE have been forsaken

The innocent question that breaks every developer's heart. "Is there documentation?" We all know the answer before it's even given. The silent embrace that follows is the universal symbol for "you're on your own, kid - just read the source code like the rest of us." That comforting hug isn't saying "it'll be okay" - it's saying "welcome to the wonderful world of guessing what the original programmer was thinking at 3AM after their sixth coffee."

Someone took the classic bell curve meme format and applied it to debugging methodology, and honestly? They're not wrong. The distribution shows that whether you're a complete beginner frantically spamming print statements everywhere, an average developer who's "too sophisticated" for that (but secretly still does it), or a senior engineer who's transcended all pretense and gone full circle back to print debugging—you're all doing the same thing. The middle 68% are probably using debuggers, breakpoints, and other "proper" tools while judging everyone else, but the truth is that a well-placed print("got here") has solved more bugs than any IDE debugger ever will. The extremes understand what the middle refuses to admit: sometimes the fastest way to find a bug is to just print the damn variable.