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The classic developer blame game in its natural habitat! The backend dev secretly passes a note with their broken code to the frontend dev, who opens it only to find the dreaded "500 Internal Server Error." The frontend dev's face says it all—pure rage at being handed a server problem they can't fix but will absolutely get blamed for when users start complaining. It's like ordering a pizza and receiving an empty box with a note saying "we're out of ingredients, you figure it out." The eternal backend-frontend relationship summarized in two panels of pure frustration.

The brutal truth of modern software development in one devastating punchline. We've become so dependent on frameworks and libraries that we've forgotten the fundamental skills. Building a browser from scratch? Might as well ask us to build a rocket to Mars using only a paperclip and some chewing gum. What makes this extra spicy is that it's coming from an older-generation programmer who actually remembers when people did build things from scratch. Meanwhile, the rest of us are over here struggling when npm is down for 5 minutes. The future date (2025) is just the cherry on top of this existential crisis sundae. The knowledge gap isn't getting better—it's getting worse.

This meme is poking fun at beginner developers who think they've accomplished something impressive when they've really just done something super basic. In the conversation, someone brags that they "just downloaded Cursor" (which is a code editor with AI features) and claims "anyone can be an engineer now." They follow up saying they "literally built something in minutes" which sounds impressive... But the punchline is when they share what they built: http://localhost:3000/ — which is just the default local development server address that comes pre-configured with most modern web frameworks like React, Vue, etc. It's like someone saying they "built a house" when all they did was open the front door to a pre-built home. The joke captures the dunning-kruger effect in programming where beginners sometimes don't realize how little they know. The title "aiProgrammers" adds another layer, suggesting that AI tools like Cursor are giving people a false sense of programming ability when they're just using templates or boilerplate code.

Content The six steps of debugging: 1) That can't happen. 2) That doesn't happen on my machine. 3) That shouldn't happen. 4) Why does that happen? 5) Oh, I see. 6) How did that ever work? Yesterday I reached step 6

Content Me when I'm coding Me when I'm bugfixing what I just coded

Content when you haven't used a language in years but you still manage to write a program without syntax errors: I'm still worthy!