When you're taking a break but can't stop thinking about that bug...

The natural evolution of a programmer's code sources, illustrated with perfect animal metaphors. Your journey begins with "some random blog" (scrawny rat) for those desperate 2AM solutions. Then you graduate to GitHub (slightly more respectable dog) where at least someone reviewed the code. Stack Overflow (fat rat) is where you go when you're truly desperate - bloated with answers but somehow still works. And finally, "my code" - that weird hybrid creature that somehow functions despite looking like it was assembled from spare parts at 4AM after 6 energy drinks. It's not pretty, but it walks! Ship it to production!

Ah, the classic "who wrote this abomination" moment. That feeling when you return to your own code after a brief hiatus and suddenly it looks like ancient Egyptian artifacts on your screen. Your past self apparently thought, "Documentation? Comments? Nah, future me will totally remember what this spaghetti monster does!" Spoiler alert: you don't. Now you're sitting there, coffee in hand, questioning your career choices while trying to decipher whether that function was brilliant or just sleep-deprived madness. The archaeological dig through your own creation begins...

Ah, the mythical "Expert Keyboard" – three buttons that sum up 90% of coding bootcamp graduates' skillset. Why learn algorithms when Stack Overflow exists? The first button even has the Stack Overflow logo, because that's where the copying begins. It's not plagiarism, it's "leveraging existing solutions." The microphone is there so you can dictate which error message to Google next. Who needs computer science degrees when you have Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, and a reliable internet connection?

You know you're dreaming when you bang out a complex feature in a single day and it somehow works flawlessly on the first run. But then reality hits harder than a segfault—not only does it work, but it's also handling edge cases you didn't even consider. That's when you wake up in a cold sweat, realizing your actual code is probably still throwing NullPointerExceptions on line 47. In the real world, "works on first try" usually means you forgot to actually test it, and those mysterious edge cases? They're just bugs waiting to surface during the demo.

Remember when we used to frantically search Stack Overflow for solutions? Now everyone's lining up to ask ChatGPT while Stack Overflow stands empty like the last Blockbuster. The AI revolution didn't just shift paradigms—it shifted the queue. That one lonely developer at Stack Overflow is probably posting questions just to feel something again.

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