Say Again "Exception Raised," Just One More Time

Content Matt Watson Following 4x Founder, CTOCEO, Podcaster, Blogger, 2 SaaS Exits, Help Compa... 15h 4 "Technical debt": Move fast and don't fix things "Agile development": Admitting you have no plan "TDD": Guessing the future, one test at a time "Open source": Asking someone else to fix it "CICD": Automating your mistakes into production "API": Asking someone else to do it "DevOps": The belief that more tools fix any problem "Microservices": Creating enough small problems to avoid one big one "Cybersecurity": Playing hide and seek with hackers "Serverless": Pretending servers don't exist until the bill comes "Scrum": Group therapy for being behind schedule What did I miss? g

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Ah, the eternal standoff between human laziness and HTML syntax. That unclosed button tag just sitting there, mocking you while you're desperately hoping some AI assistant will swoop in and add that magical </button> for you. The Pablo Escobar waiting meme perfectly captures that existential emptiness as you stare at your screen, wondering if you really need to expend the energy to type those nine extra characters. Is it "vibe coding" or just peak developer energy conservation? Either way, that button's staying unclosed until the heat death of the universe.

The SHEER EXISTENTIAL CRISIS when your AI IDE just can't comprehend that your code is STILL BROKEN after you've reported it for the 15TH TIME! 😩 Your fancy AI assistant is just sitting there like "hmm, have you tried turning it off and on again?" while you're on the verge of a complete mental breakdown! The cognitive dissonance between what the AI thinks is helpful and what you actually need is enough to make anyone question their career choices and possibly their will to live. And yet tomorrow, like the coding masochists we are, we'll be right back at it again!

HONEY, THE PANIC IS REAL! Game developers put on the performance of their LIVES when someone asks about their game's progress! That forced smile? That's the face of someone whose code is held together by duct tape and prayers! The immediate deflection with "Great. Why, what have you heard?" is the digital equivalent of sweating through your formal wear while your game crashes if a player walks diagonally and jumps at the same time! Behind every cheerful "it's going great!" is a dev who hasn't slept in 72 hours because they're frantically trying to fix that one bug where all the NPCs suddenly decide to T-pose and float toward the ceiling! The truth would be too horrifying to share in polite company!