The Devil Said, "Take This Glyph-Laden Grimoire And Try To Render It Cross-Platform"

Content THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD THOSE WHO DON'T CODE HTMLAT ALL AND THOSE WHO ALWAYS SEARCH FOR HOW TO CENTER A FUCKIN' DIV BLOCK

The railroad tracks of progress have certainly gotten more complex! On the left, we have the traditional straight-line coding path—simple, predictable, and takes you 5 hours to reach a single destination. On the right, the AI-assisted coding multiverse with infinite possibilities, chaotic intersections, and enough track switches to give a train conductor an existential crisis. Sure, you'll build your app in 5 minutes with AI, but then spend the next 4 hours and 55 minutes figuring out which of the 47 different generated solutions actually works without summoning digital Cthulhu to your codebase. The real question: are we moving faster or just creating more impressive train wrecks?

The coding journey in one perfect graph. You start with a tangled ball of confusion (that red mess is literally my first React project), stumble through the "I think I'm getting it" phase in the middle, and then suddenly—exponential growth to infinity. The kicker? That "Forever" label is spot on. Ten years in and I'm still waiting to reach the top of that curve. Spoiler alert: you never do. The learning never stops, which is both the most beautiful and most infuriating part of this profession. That chaotic squiggle is basically my resume at this point.

Ah yes, the pinnacle of UX design—listing every possible phone number in a dropdown instead of using a simple text input. Because why let users type when they can enjoy the thrill of scrolling through thousands of options? Nothing says "we value your time" like forcing you to hunt for your number like it's a needle in a digital haystack. The developer probably thought: "Text fields are so 2005, let's make users earn their form submission." This is what happens when you ask the backend dev to handle the frontend for "just one quick task."

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The modern beginner's dilemma in one perfect image! Trying to pick your first programming language is like being that panicked creature staring at a floor scattered with tech options. JavaScript? Python? Maybe C#? Or perhaps one of those trendy frameworks? The cruel irony is that veterans know it barely matters which pill you swallow first - you'll end up learning half of them anyway. Yet we all remember that initial paralysis by analysis, frantically Googling "best programming language 2024" at 2AM while questioning our life choices. Pro tip: Just pick one and start building something. Six months later, you'll hate whatever you chose and switch anyway!