Sounds About Right

The classic developer escape plan. You build half a monstrosity, realize it's become a Lovecraftian nightmare of technical debt, then suddenly remember your cousin's startup needs a senior developer. Meanwhile, the grim reaper (aka those impossible projects) patiently waits at the company door for the next unsuspecting junior who'll inherit your undocumented spaghetti code. It's not abandonment—it's a strategic career advancement opportunity.

Remember when developers just... wrote code? Wild concept, I know. The tweet sarcastically points out how Zuckerberg built Facebook in 2005 without today's trendy tech stack buzzwords that junior devs think are mandatory for any project with more than 3 users. Back then, it was PHP, MySQL, and sheer determination—not Kubernetes clusters managing serverless functions with real-time edge replication while mining Bitcoin on the side. Next time your startup "needs" a microservice architecture to handle 12 users, remember: Facebook served millions with technology that would make modern architects clutch their mechanical keyboards in horror.

Ah, the mythical "organized development process." While enterprise teams are drowning in Jira tickets, standups, and 27 different Trello boards, these indie devs are out here making masterpieces while asking "Is software the thing with the clicking?" Their Trello account got deactivated from neglect while your team has three people whose entire job is maintaining the sprint backlog. Yet somehow they ship and you're still "refining requirements" for that button color change from last quarter.

The eternal developer dilemma: crawling 21 miles through the desert to automate a task that would take 10 minutes to do manually. Why solve something in 10 minutes when you can spend your entire workday building an over-engineered solution? The automation paradox is real—we'll happily burn 10 hours "saving time" while completely ignoring the simple path right in front of us. The ROI math never checks out, but hey, at least we got to write code instead of doing actual work!

Linux users love nothing more than watching newbies type commands they don't understand. The sudo command gives you superuser privileges—basically handing your computer a loaded gun and saying "whatever happens next is on you." The best part is how the experienced Linux user is actually impressed when their friend accidentally obliterates the entire desktop environment. That's the Linux way—catastrophic failure is just another learning opportunity. Remember kids: never blindly type commands ending with "yes, do as I say!" unless you're prepared to explain to your boss why the production server is now running MS-DOS.

The eternal battle between developers and project managers continues! This meme perfectly captures the skepticism devs feel when a PM claims they're making life easier. In theory, PMs should shield developers from distractions and streamline workflows. In practice? They're often the ones introducing new tools, changing requirements mid-sprint, and asking "quick questions" that derail your entire afternoon of deep work. The silent stare in the third panel says everything a developer is thinking but can't say in the Slack channel. It's that universal "sure, Jan" moment that happens right before you get an invite to another "quick sync" that somehow lasts 90 minutes.