Why You Do This

Ah, the perfect crime! The programmer wrote code so illegible that not even he could explain it to the authorities. The real criminal offense wasn't whatever got him detained—it was his refusal to write comments in his spaghetti code. Bet his teammates already wanted him locked up anyway. The ultimate job security: code so cryptic that firing you would be corporate suicide.

When your senior dev says "just vibed my way through this code" and now you're staring into the abyss of nested if-statements and undocumented functions that somehow work through sheer cosmic luck. The top panel shows the carefree bliss of writing spaghetti code with zero documentation, while the bottom reveals your soul being slowly crushed as you try to understand why there's a random sleep(3000) in the middle of a critical function. Bonus points if the AI-generated code includes comments like "// magic happens here" and "// don't touch this or everything breaks".

Content Me: having back pain and I don't know why Also me when debugging ProgrammerHumor.

Nothing captures the duality of a developer's existence quite like this. When forced to code in a language you despise, you end up with a meticulously crafted monstrosity—technically functional but unnecessarily complex and painful to maintain. It's like building a Volvo out of LEGO bricks—sure, it looks like a car, but nobody wants to drive that thing. Meanwhile, coding in your preferred language is like that simple LEGO car below—elegant, efficient, and actually fun to build. The code practically writes itself! It might not be as flashy, but it gets the job done without making you question your career choices every 15 minutes. Funny how we'll spend 10 hours overengineering something in PHP when we could've knocked it out in Python before lunch. But hey, at least we have something to blame besides our own stubbornness!

Content You finally find the source of the bug! It's a variable labelled "temp" temp was committed into the code 4 years ago and was never removed Several important calculations seem to rely on temp now None of this is documented anywhere

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