Broadcom's Explosive Pricing Strategy

The pure, unbridled joy of escaping the dreaded retrospective meeting is like landing a production deployment with zero bugs. No need to rehash last sprint's disasters or explain why your estimate of "2 story points" somehow turned into a two-week odyssey. For one blessed day, nobody's asking why you committed directly to main or why the database is held together with duct tape and prayers. Freedom tastes so sweet!

The evolution of programmer emotions in one perfect image. Novice programmer: arms raised in ecstatic disbelief that their code actually worked on the first try. Experienced programmer: suspicious squint and existential dread because code working on the first attempt is basically a warning sign that something is terribly wrong. When your code works immediately, it's not a miracle—it's the calm before the storm of 47 undiscovered bugs that will reveal themselves at 4:58pm on Friday. Trust issues with functional code is the true mark of a seasoned developer.

Day 1 of a project: "I'm going to write beautiful, clean code with proper documentation and test coverage." Day 30 of the same project with 7 new requirements and 3 shifted deadlines: "Just make the damn thing work and we'll fix it in version 2." The customers don't care about your elegant architecture—they just want to see something flashy that doesn't immediately crash.

The perfect excuse has arrived! When GitHub Actions is down, productivity grinds to a halt faster than a recursive function without a base case. There's something beautifully legitimate about telling your manager "Sorry, can't deploy that critical fix - GitHub's down" while secretly enjoying your unexpected coffee break. The best part? Even the most demanding managers instantly transform from "GET BACK TO WORK" to "Oh, carry on" because they know arguing with cloud infrastructure outages is like trying to debug by adding more bugs. Sweet, sweet dependency-induced freedom.

Spending millions on security infrastructure only to have your credentials set to "admin/admin" is like installing a bank vault door on a cardboard box. The CISO's horrified face says it all - watching that fancy security castle crumble because someone couldn't be bothered to use a password manager. It's the corporate equivalent of installing a state-of-the-art home security system but leaving your spare key under the doormat with a neon sign pointing to it.

Started the day thinking "I'll just clean up this one messy function" and ended it frantically restoring from backups. The classic developer hubris—thinking you can touch that ancient code that's somehow holding the entire infrastructure together. It's like trying to remove one Jenga piece and watching the whole tower collapse. Next time I'll just pretend I didn't see that 200-line monstrosity with seven nested if-statements. Some technical debt is actually structural support.