We Are Humans Too

The unspoken rule of programming: you're allowed to abandon that nightmare project you started at 2 AM. That framework you've been fighting for weeks? That codebase where nothing works as documented? The legacy system held together by duct tape and prayers? Nobody's giving out medals for suffering through terrible code. Your GitHub streak won't attend your funeral. Sometimes the most intelligent solution is just hitting Alt+F4 and walking away. Your sanity > That project. Permission granted.

That thousand-yard stare when your brain decides to solve your recursive function issue during a social event. Your body might be discussing weekend plans, but your mind just figured out it was a missing semicolon all along. The real party is happening in your prefrontal cortex where that elusive edge case just got handled. Meanwhile everyone else is wondering why you're nodding at nothing and mumbling "of course, the buffer overflow."

Normal people sleep peacefully while programmers lie awake, staring into the void, haunted by that one bug they can't fix, the looming tech layoffs, existential AI career threats, and the crushing obligation to learn yet another JavaScript framework that'll be obsolete before they finish the tutorial. Sleep is just a luxury reserved for those who don't know what a dependency tree is.

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