Schrödinger's Code: Simultaneously Broken And Working

Content I created Microsoft We created Google I created Facebook A I created Apple You Created What?

The circle of digital life! Your AI coding assistant confidently suggests improvements while secretly running on a diet of Stack Overflow answers from 2014. Meanwhile, those Stack Overflow answers need constant human updates because technology evolves faster than documentation. It's the ultimate ouroboros - AI pretending to be smarter than the humans who created the very content it regurgitates. Next time your AI suggests "optimizing" your perfectly functional code, remember it's just parroting some poor soul who got 47 upvotes seven years ago.

Sales: "Our software is revolutionary! Look at these smooth animations!" Meanwhile, developers are frantically messaging each other: "DON'T CLICK THAT BUTTON! THE ENTIRE DATABASE WILL EXPLODE!" The eternal tech company cycle: sales promising features that exist only in PowerPoint while developers contemplate career changes. The slick UI is just makeup on a pig that's about to crash spectacularly in production. But hey, the animations are buttery smooth!

The absolute TRAGEDY of being a JavaScript developer confronted with explaining Promises! 💀 When cornered and asked to explain how asynchronous operations actually work, even the bravest JS dev would rather face a firing squad than attempt to articulate callback hell, .then() chains, and the mystical async/await sorcery. "Don't shoot! I am JS Developer" quickly transforms to "Actually... just end me now" when faced with explaining the cosmic horror that is JavaScript's Promise architecture. The surrender is REAL.

Content Reading documentation in 10 min and then coding the solution Coding first and then debugging it for 10 hours

Content TYPES OF RPROGRAMMERHUMOR POSTS CLIENTS ARE STUPID DOES NEEDING TO USE GOOGLE AND DOCUMENTATION MAKE YOU A BAD PROGRAMMER? COMPILERS ARE MOSTLY BAD AT EXPLAINING SYNTAX ERRORS IS IT OKAY TO USE INFINITE RAM? HOLD MY BEER WHILE I MAKE FUN OF JAVASCRIPT STACKOVERFLOW VOTED LEAST FRIENDLY SITE HERE'S HOW I CREATED A NEW TOOL AND STILL FAILED TO PASS A JOB INTERVIEW USING THAT SAME TOOL NUMBER OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES REQUIRED ON JOB OFFERS HAVE INCREASED 3000 IN THE LAST CENTURY PRINTING "HELLO. WORLD!" DOES NOT TEACH EVERYTHING ABOUT A LANGUAGE WHAT I'M DOING DOES NOT CORRESPOND TO WHAT I THINK SOCIETY THINKS I'M DOING: A CASE STUDY IN FIXING PRINTERS FOR FREE NEW RECORD: ONE USER TRAPPED IN VIM FOR 50 CONSECUTIVE YEARS RECURSI000ON: LOOK HOW META I AM! read the original version at https:kcd.com2456