The Two Thrones Of Software Development

The hierarchy of unhinged individuals has been established. Serial killers? Scary. Psychopaths? Terrifying. But the true monsters among us? Those developers who somehow write 1000+ lines in Notepad—no syntax highlighting, no autocomplete, no Stack Overflow lifeline—and the damn thing compiles perfectly on the first try. It's like watching someone solve a Rubik's cube blindfolded while reciting pi to 100 digits. Not natural. Not human. I've been coding for 15 years and still can't write a simple for-loop without checking the syntax three times. These people aren't programmers—they're eldritch horrors masquerading in human skin.

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OH. MY. GOD. The absolute HORROR of realizing YOU'RE the source of your own catastrophe! 😱 This poor developer just discovered their server is being BOMBARDED by an infinite loop they wrote themselves! That commented-out i++ is the digital equivalent of leaving your gas stove on while going on vacation! The infinite while loop keeps hammering their own server with requests because—SURPRISE—they forgot to increment the counter! It's like watching someone frantically call the fire department while holding a flamethrower in their other hand! The betrayal! The irony! The DRAMA!

Ah, the sacred text has been revealed! Forget all those fancy design patterns, architecture principles, and code reviews. The real golden rule of programming is the ancient art of "if it works, don't touch it." Nothing captures the existential dread of a developer quite like that moment when your janky, duct-taped code somehow passes all tests. You know deep in your soul it's a house of cards waiting to collapse, but deadlines are deadlines. So you quietly whisper "I'll refactor it later" (narrator: they never did ), and commit that monstrosity to production. Future you will hate present you, but that's a problem for future you. And isn't that what programming is all about? Creating problems for our future selves?

This student is playing 4D chess with their reverse engineering professor! They created a malicious executable that self-destructs when you guess wrong, then deleted the file before submitting. When the professor tries to run it, they get the classic "not recognized as a command" error—meaning they'd have to reverse engineer a program that doesn't even exist anymore. Absolutely diabolical way to ensure you get full marks without doing the actual assignment. The perfect crime!

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