So It Follows

Same word, two entirely different emotional states. Biology majors get excited studying fascinating creatures with exoskeletons and compound eyes. Meanwhile, CS majors stare into the abyss of undefined behavior with thousand-yard stares, wondering why their code that worked perfectly yesterday suddenly decided to implode today. The only thing evolving in our code is the bugs—they're getting smarter while we're losing sanity.

Content When you stare at your code for 2 hours and you finally get a different error

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 C++ Olympic gold medalist celebrates victory in the first 5 panels, only to get absolutely destroyed by Rust in the final frame. Classic story of our industry - spend decades mastering pointer arithmetic and manual memory management, then some new language comes along with a borrow checker and suddenly you're obsolete. C++17 promised better memory safety features, but let's be honest - it's like putting a band-aid on a chainsaw wound. Meanwhile Rust sits on the podium smugly preventing segfaults at compile time while every other garbage-collected language watches from second place. Ten years of debugging dangling pointers and suddenly I'm supposed to learn ownership semantics? Fine, I'll update my resume.

The classic Greek myth gets a programming twist! While the goddesses offer power, gold, and beauty, Paris immediately abandons all reason when the fourth competitor shows up with the ultimate developer fantasy: bug-free code . Let's be honest - we'd all choose the magical rubber duck that promises error-free coding over any worldly treasure. The fact that it's a rubber duck (the universal debugging companion) makes this extra brilliant. Who needs Aphrodite when you can have code that works on the first try?

That transcendent moment after a 14-hour coding marathon when your RAM finally gets to breathe again. Browser tabs are like Tribbles—they multiply exponentially with each Stack Overflow search until your computer fans sound like a jet engine. The sheer ecstasy of Ctrl+Shift+W after pushing that final commit... *chef's kiss*. Your computer silently thanks you as its temperature drops from "surface of the sun" to merely "hot coffee." Chrome's memory usage graph probably looks like the stock market crash of 1929.