The Copy-Paste Betrayal

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The Copy-Paste Betrayal

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The universal programmer betrayal: copy-pasting code from a tutorial with surgical precision only to watch it crash and burn. That moment of pure confusion as you stare at your screen like Ted the bear here—wondering if you're living in some parallel universe where Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V is broken. The tutorial creator probably forgot to mention those crucial environment variables, or that one magical dependency they installed three years ago and completely forgot about. The best part? The comments section is full of people saying "worked perfectly for me!" Classic digital gaslighting at its finest.

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