When Your Bug Fix Becomes The Final Boss

The perfect response when your coworker asks if you've consulted the documentation before bothering them with your problem. Ten years in this industry and I've developed a sixth sense for detecting who actually reads docs versus who just mashes Stack Overflow solutions together until something works. Documentation is like flossing - everybody claims they do it regularly, but the reality is much grimmer. Most devs would rather reverse-engineer an entire codebase than spend 5 minutes reading what the author actually intended.

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The five stages of grief hit differently when reviewing your own code from yesterday. First comes the nervous finger-biting, then the slow realization, followed by the blank stare of disbelief, then the "oh god what have I done" face-palm, and finally the existential horror of knowing you have to fix whatever abomination you unleashed. The worst part? You were probably so proud of that "clever" solution when you wrote it. Ten hours and three coffees later, and suddenly you're archaeologist of your own terrible decisions.

The AUDACITY of people when they discover you work in tech! 💻 One second you're having a nice conversation, the next they're asking you to resurrect their ancient printer from the digital graveyard. Like, honey, I write code that makes websites pretty - I don't perform NECROMANCY on your possessed HP LaserJet from 2003! The way that doctor YEETED that clipboard is exactly how I feel when someone says "but you're good with computers" after I explain I can't fix their hardware. The emotional DAMAGE is real!

Remember the ancient art of writing code from your own brain? That mythical skill where you actually memorize syntax instead of copy-pasting from Stack Overflow? The meme perfectly captures that rare moment of pride when you manage to write a whole 10 lines of functioning code without frantically Googling "how to center a div" or "javascript array methods cheatsheet" for the 500th time. In 2023, writing even a simple for-loop without external assistance feels like honest work worthy of a humble farmer's pride. The neural pathways that once stored actual programming knowledge have been replaced with search query optimization skills.