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That moment of pure dread when QA starts using your feature in ways you specifically didn't account for in your test cases. You built it for users who follow logical paths, but QA's sole mission is chaos. They'll click buttons 17 times in succession, enter emoji in numeric fields, and somehow manage to crash the entire application by typing their name backward. The tears are justified—you knew this would happen, yet hoped against hope they wouldn't find that one edge case you silently labeled as "nobody would ever do this anyway."

Initial joy: "Oh look, my favorite app updated!" Five minutes later: *staring at completely redesigned UI where nothing makes sense anymore, features you actually used are gone, and somehow the app is now 3x slower* Nothing quite like that special feeling when developers "fix" something that wasn't broken. Remember when you could just launch an app without having to relearn it every two weeks? Those were the days.

When your PM asks you to explain technical debt like they're six, you pull out the Haggis story. Dude's got a hole in his roof but won't fix it when it's raining because it's too wet, and won't fix it when it's sunny because, well, there's no leak. Classic. That's your codebase right there. The bug isn't critical enough to fix during the sprint because everyone's busy shipping features, and when you finally have downtime, management says "if it ain't broke, don't touch it." Meanwhile, the hole gets bigger, the roof starts sagging, and eventually you're debugging a production incident at 2 AM wondering how a simple auth service turned into a distributed systems nightmare. The "Translate from French" button really seals the deal—because apparently technical debt is so universal it transcends language barriers. Haggis speaks to us all.

THE NINE STAGES OF PROGRAMMER EXISTENTIAL CRISIS! 😱 Top row: Your code works and you're feeling like a LITERAL GOD. But wait—as you move right, your understanding plummets into the abyss. "It works and I don't know why" is where the true horror begins! Middle row: ABSOLUTE NIGHTMARE FUEL. Your precious code doesn't work, and your mental state deteriorates from "confident debugger" to "terrified code goblin" faster than you can say "Stack Overflow." Bottom row: The purgatory of "sometimes works." This is where sanity goes to DIE. The skull face says it all—you've transcended into a realm where logic no longer applies and you're just throwing semicolons at the wall hoping something sticks!

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