Worked On It For 4 Hours

Frustration Simple fix Programmer life Facepalm Burnout Code rage Time-waster

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Worked On It For 4 Hours

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That look when you've been debugging the same issue for 4 hours, and the solution was so embarrassingly simple that you're now contemplating a career in goat farming. The blank stare into the monitor isn't just fatigue—it's your soul leaving your body after realizing you forgot a semicolon. Or worse, you spent half your day hunting down a bug that was fixed by turning it off and on again. The monitor isn't showing code anymore; it's showing your reflection questioning every life decision that led to this moment.

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