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Nobody understands why legacy code works. The wizard admits he just copy-pasted from "Arcane Overflow" (StackOverflow) and has no clue what the symbols actually do, but removing them breaks everything. The perfect metaphor for that one critical function in your codebase with the comment "// DO NOT TOUCH - NOBODY KNOWS WHY THIS WORKS". The "magic circle" is just your typical spaghetti code that somehow passes all the tests. And let's be honest, we've all been that wizard - confidently explaining code we don't understand until someone asks one question too many.

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Normal people sleep peacefully while programmers lie awake, staring into the void, haunted by that one bug they can't fix, the looming tech layoffs, existential AI career threats, and the crushing obligation to learn yet another JavaScript framework that'll be obsolete before they finish the tutorial. Sleep is just a luxury reserved for those who don't know what a dependency tree is.

The uncanny parallel between gambling addiction and our newfound AI dependency is frighteningly accurate . On the left: traditional gambling. On the right: the modern developer's slot machine—AI prompting. Both promising quick riches while delivering mostly disappointment. The self-delusion is identical. "One more spin" becomes "one more prompt." The house always wins, but in coding, it's your cursor (and the AI companies collecting your prompts). My favorite part? That moment of clarity when you realize you've spent 3 hours prompt-engineering something you could've coded in 20 minutes. It's like waking up in Vegas with empty pockets and a newfound appreciation for your day job.

That moment when you're mentally preparing for a complex algorithm to finish processing, only to realize you've been staring at a "Press any key to continue" prompt for the last 5 minutes. Your CPU is just sitting there at 0.1% utilization while your brain is at 100% wondering why nothing's happening. The rubber duck debugging method works great until the duck is silently judging your inability to read simple instructions.

In 1973, NASA sent humans to the literal moon with just 4KB of RAM. Fast forward to 2019, and your beastly machine with 16GB RAM and maxed-out CPU is brought to its knees by... an Excel dialog box lurking in the background. Nothing captures modern software bloat quite like this perfect comparison. We've gone from accomplishing humanity's greatest feats with minimal resources to having our supercomputers paralyzed by spreadsheet popups. Progress?