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The classic demo day disaster! Junior devs having existential meltdowns while senior devs are just like "Ah yes, the demo monster strikes again." That terrifying moment when your perfectly working app decides to transform into a fire-breathing crash-beast right when all the important people are watching! Seniors have seen this movie before—they've developed that thousand-yard stare that says "I expected nothing and I'm still disappointed." Meanwhile juniors are discovering new levels of panic they didn't know existed. It's not a real product launch until something explodes spectacularly in front of the CEO!

Ah yes, the four things that make grown developers cry. Toothpaste that can't go back in the tube, torn paper that can't be un-torn, scrambled eggs that can't be un-scrambled, and the dreaded git reset --hard HEAD~1 that just erased your entire afternoon's work because you forgot to commit. That last one hits different at 4:59 PM on a Friday. Nothing says "I'm in danger" quite like accidentally nuking your uncommitted changes. Pro tip: stash before you trash.

You can run, but your technical debt follows you everywhere. That mountain of hastily written code, those "temporary" workarounds from 2021, and all those TODOs you swore you'd fix "next sprint" are patiently waiting at your new job. Turns out switching companies doesn't erase your coding sins—it just gives you fresh victims to explain why "this particular implementation is a bit... unconventional."

The irony of Bjarne Stroustrup—you know, just the guy who created C++ —having only one green square on his GitHub contribution graph is chef's kiss material. Recruiters everywhere are frantically updating their "red flags" documentation. Meanwhile, the person who invented the language that powers half the world's critical infrastructure would probably get auto-rejected by the ATS systems he helped make possible. Next interview question: "So, Mr. Stroustrup, what would you say you actually do here?"

Ah, the classic time paradox of debugging! When your friend points out you've been working on a bug fix "since 5pm" but it's only 4pm, they've unwittingly stumbled upon one of programming's greatest secrets: debugger time dilation . That thousand-yard stare says it all—you've been so deep in the debugging rabbit hole that you've not only lost track of time, you've somehow traveled to a future where you've already spent an hour fixing it. The real horror? That Friday deploy is still happening regardless of which timeline you're in!

The duality of modern coding life. First panel: "OMG, GitHub Copilot is free in VS Code?!" *frantically puts on glasses to see clearly* Second panel: "Wait... my code is free for GitHub Copilot?" *realization sets in* Remember when we used to worry about other devs stealing our code? Now we're feeding the AI overlords our precious algorithms so they can regurgitate them to junior devs who'll get paid more than us. The circle of tech life, folks.