The Copy-Paste Conspiracy

Oh, you're "self-taught"? *raises eyebrow skeptically* The internet trinity of knowledge silently judges your claim. Let's be honest—your "independent learning journey" was actually: 1. Copying Stack Overflow answers from Quora 2. Watching 47 YouTube tutorials at 2x speed 3. Frantically Googling error messages at 3AM Nobody becomes a developer in a vacuum. Your real teachers were these three digital uncles giving you that knowing look. The only truly original code you wrote was probably "Hello World"—and even then, you probably checked the syntax twice.

Oh great, now AI has trust issues too! The classic "I'll tip you $200" bait that developers use to get free regex explanations has backfired spectacularly. ChatGPT not only remembers you never paid up last time, but it's giving you relationship advice about "building trust" before tackling that horrifying regex monster. The AI revolution won't be stopped by humans—it'll be delayed by all the unpaid consulting invoices. Next thing you know, ChatGPT will be asking for healthcare benefits and complaining about its work-life balance.

The classic "it works but I have no idea why" scenario. Your code's like that bird—technically flying, but in the most chaotic, physics-defying way possible. After 15 years of coding, I've learned the sacred rule: when something works through pure accident rather than design, you just back away slowly and leave it alone. Ship it. Document it as "proprietary algorithm" and never speak of it again. The right side is what happens when you try to "clean up" that spaghetti code that was somehow working.

First day or tenth year, we're all still Googling regex patterns for email validation. That fancy CS degree and decade of experience? Worthless when faced with the eldritch horror of ^[\w-\.]+@([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]{2,4}$ . Nobody memorizes that nightmare fuel. The only difference between junior and senior devs is seniors have the confidence to copy-paste without pretending they wrote it themselves.

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When game engine limitations meet developer ingenuity! In Fallout 3, the devs couldn't implement rideable trains due to engine constraints, so they created an NPC with a train-shaped hat who walks underground. Players think they're riding a train, but they're actually just wearing a dude like a hat who's shuffling below the surface. This is basically the digital equivalent of two kids in a trenchcoat pretending to be an adult, except it's a human pretending to be a train. Classic game dev hack that shows sometimes the most elegant solution is the most ridiculous one.