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Designer gets all excited about their shiny new feature. Tech lead takes one look at the design doc, immediately clocks out because they know what's coming. Meanwhile, the junior engineer is already spiraling into an existential nightmare trying to figure out how to actually implement this thing.
That creepy SpongeBob wandering through the horror hallway? That's the junior dev's mental state after realizing the "simple" design requires refactoring half the codebase, learning three new frameworks, and probably sacrificing a rubber duck to the coding gods. The designer's enthusiasm is inversely proportional to the engineer's sanity.
The tech lead already knows this dance. They've seen it a thousand times. That's why they're going home.
