The Tower Of Digital Babel

The duality of corporate tech meetings in its purest form! In panel one, developers eagerly raise their hands for cool productivity tools like auto-complete and "vibe coding" (which I'm assuming is just coding while listening to lo-fi beats). But the second panel reveals the real management agenda - using those same tools as an excuse to slash the workforce and squeeze more work from fewer devs. Classic bait-and-switch! Notice how everyone's hands mysteriously disappeared faster than semicolons in Python code. The room went from "YAAAS AI PAIR PROGRAMMING!" to "wait, did he just say we're all getting fired?" in 0.2 milliseconds.

SWEET MOTHER OF MONOLITHS! Everyone's raving about MCP (Microservice Communication Protocols) like it's the second coming of programming Jesus, but then you peek under the hood and—GASP!—it's just regular server apps with fancy communication protocols wearing a trench coat! 😱 The AUDACITY of these buzzwords parading around like they're revolutionary when they're basically just the same old tech with sparkly new marketing! It's like putting lipstick on a REST API and calling it a supermodel! The wide-eyed horror on that cat's face is LITERALLY MY SOUL every time someone tries to convince me their "revolutionary architecture" isn't just the same old client-server relationship with extra steps!

Nothing says "totally not stressed" like aging 40 years in 29. That beard isn't white from wisdom—it's from debugging legacy code at 3 AM while production is on fire. The sunglasses aren't a fashion statement; they're hiding the thousand-yard stare from staring at Stack Overflow for 72 consecutive hours. But sure, Nerijus, tell us again how IT isn't stressful while your eye twitches uncontrollably behind those lenses.

The expectation vs reality of reviving ancient hardware with Linux is just brutal. Top panel: "Linux will breathe new life into your Jurassic-era netbook!" Bottom panel: "Oh, you wanted to actually use software? How adorable." Every modern development tool, IDE, and even basic apps giving you the middle finger with compatibility issues. That 32-bit processor might as well be a museum piece trying to run today's 64-bit world. It's like bringing a spoon to a gunfight and wondering why you can't shoot anything.

When a developer thinks they're a Git wizard but hasn't quite mastered the dark arts... git push --force is basically the programming equivalent of saying "I know what I'm doing" right before catastrophe strikes. It's that command that overwrites remote history with your local changes, consequences be damned! The poor soul in this comic learned the hard way that Git doesn't come with an "undo apocalypse" button. One minute you're confidently force-pushing changes, the next you've erased months of your colleagues' work and suddenly everyone's Slack status changes to "contemplating violence." And just like that bike crash, there's no graceful recovery from nuking your team's repository. You just lie there, contemplating your career choices while frantically Googling "how to restore git history please help urgent!!!"

Started the day jamming to music while writing code that "totally works" – ended it staring at this electrical nightmare wondering which wire broke your production server. That poor technician is basically all of us at 4:30pm on a Friday when someone reports a "small bug" in the feature you pushed this morning. The only difference is his tangled mess is visible to everyone, while yours is safely hidden in a Git repository where only your therapist and future you will judge it.