The Real Apocalypse

The eternal interrogation room of software development. One developer asking about "future refactoring" is basically code for "we know this is terrible but we're shipping it anyway." It's that awkward moment when everyone silently acknowledges the technical debt being created, but nobody wants to be the one to delay the sprint. The code smells so bad it needs an interrogation room to confess its crimes, but hey—we'll fix it "next sprint" (narrator: they never did).

The eternal struggle of a desperate coder, captured in one image! On the left, we have LLMs promising to "help with programming questions" but won't actually insult you (how considerate). On the right, StackOverflow boasting it's "accurate" and "used by people who know what they're doing" while flexing knowledge of "even the most obscure languages." It's the perfect illustration of our coding dilemma: get polite, possibly hallucinated answers from an AI that treats you like a fragile child, or brave StackOverflow where your "simple question" will be closed as duplicate, marked as trivial, and someone will suggest you shouldn't be programming at all. Choose your poison!

The quantum mechanics of software development! First tweet gives us "Schroedinger's code" - where your buggy mess exists in a superposition of working/broken until someone runs the code and collapses the wave function. But the reply delivers the knockout punch - if a client discovers your bug before you do, just smile confidently and say "Yes, that was TOTALLY intentional functionality." The universal developer's get-out-of-jail-free card that's been saving careers since COBOL was cutting edge. The ultimate professional gaslighting technique that somehow still works in 2024.

Content Fix bug by... asking colleagues asking ChatgPT issues on Github posts on Reddit searching all over Github reading document

Content Michel Mayor realising He's won a Nobel Prize looks exactly the same as debugging

The existential crisis of JavaScript in two panels. Top: sad face, "Nobody understands me." Bottom: sudden realization, "Maybe I'm JavaScript." JavaScript: the only language where [] == ![] is true, typeof NaN is "number", and adding arrays gives you strings. No wonder therapists refuse to take JS as a client – its issues are beyond professional help.