Some Of Us Live The Dream

Some Of Us Live The Dream
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That innocent childhood dream of yours? Yeah, it came true. Congratulations, you're now staring at a 15-year-old codebase written by developers who apparently believed comments were a suggestion, not a requirement. The architecture makes sense to exactly zero people, including the person who wrote it, and your onboarding consists of being handed a laptop and a "good luck."

Turns out five-year-old you had prophetic visions of your current job where you spend eight hours a day playing detective, trying to figure out why a critical production system works at all. No README, no wiki, no Slack messages from the original devs because they fled to a startup three years ago. Just you, the code, and an overwhelming sense of regret.

Living the dream, one undocumented API endpoint at a time.

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