We Are Done When I Say We Are Done

That sweet, sweet moment when you're sipping your whiskey, feeling like a coding god because your AI buddy just cranked out what would've taken your team a week. Then reality hits—you've just birthed a Frankenstein's monster of spaghetti code that nobody (including you) will understand next month. But hey, ship it now, debug it later, right? Future you can deal with those mysterious dependencies and undocumented functions. It's not technical debt if you never plan to pay it back!

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Oh, the sacred archetypes of code warriors! The Paladin with their holy linter crusade (because tabs vs spaces wasn't divisive enough). The Monk crafting artisanal frameworks while typing on a Model M keyboard that sounds like a machine gun. The Sorcerer whose one-liners are so cryptic they might as well be summoning demons—their code works through sheer dark magic until Mercury goes retrograde. The Warlock maintaining COBOL systems from the 1970s, bound by ancient contracts and the souls of retired programmers. And finally, the Bard, whose documentation haikus somehow charm project managers into extending deadlines. The most terrifying part? We all know at least one of each in our dev team. And if you don't... it might be you.

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This is the perfect children's book explanation of tech debt! The dog Haggis never fixes his roof because when it's raining, it's too wet to work (aka "we're too busy putting out fires to refactor"), and when it's sunny, it doesn't need fixing (aka "why fix what isn't breaking production right now?"). Meanwhile, the ladder in the sunny picture is the perfect metaphor for the tools we finally get approved in the budget once the problem becomes critical. By then, the dog is desperately hanging out the window while his house slowly deteriorates. The real kicker? That ladder isn't even tall enough to reach the roof. Just like how management finally approves refactoring but only gives you two sprint cycles to fix three years of shortcuts.