What’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever done while learning to program and what language was it in?

The rarest creature in software development: a programmer who actually fixes bugs within the timeframe they promised. Sure, they'll confidently declare "I'll fix it in an hour" with the same conviction as someone who says "just one more episode before bed." Two hours later, they're down a rabbit hole of Stack Overflow tabs, questioning their career choices and the fundamental laws of computer science. The real joke is that we keep believing them every single time.

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 your code finally deploys to production after 47 failed attempts, and now you're just waiting for the inevitable bug reports to roll in. The shirt says it all - Breaking Prod with chemical elements Br (Bromine) and Pr (Praseodymium) in the style of a certain TV show about chemistry. The pure joy on this developer's face is the exact opposite of how their manager will look in approximately 17 minutes.

TypeScript promises type safety but then gives us the any type - basically a backdoor that lets you smuggle in whatever garbage you want. The cat's horrified expression is every senior dev watching junior devs slap any on everything to make TypeScript errors go away. "TypeScript: JS with syntax for types" *looks inside* "any" - congratulations, you've defeated the entire purpose of using TypeScript in the first place!

The left guy is literally crying while begging for proper control flow structure, while the chad on the right just keeps stacking else if statements like he's building a Jenga tower of technical debt. Sure, both approaches work, but one of them makes your future self contemplate a career change to organic farming. After eight years as a senior dev, I've seen codebases held together by 47 consecutive else-ifs and the hollow eyes of the maintainers.