And It Is Only Monday

Behold the future of coding: a three-button keyboard that distills programming to its purest form—Copy, Paste, and a logo that's probably GitHub or StackOverflow. The hardware manufacturers finally figured out what we actually do all day! Why write original code when someone on the internet already solved your problem? The "expert" part is knowing exactly which code to steal and how to make it look like you understood it in your commit messages. Future job interviews: "How efficiently can you Google?"

The classic Tom and Jerry covering their ears while someone's about to commit a war crime in Git. The git push origin master --force command is the digital equivalent of saying "I reject your reality and substitute my own." It overwrites remote history with whatever local mess you've created, consequences be damned. The kind of command that makes your team's Slack channel suddenly fill with "WHO DID THIS?" messages at 4:32 PM on a Friday.

The tech industry's holy trinity formula has been cracked. Apple and Tesla follow the standard playbook: one visionary jerk who takes all the credit, one European designer with impeccable taste, and one quiet engineer who actually makes things work. Then there's Linux. Linus Torvalds somehow managed to fill all three roles simultaneously, creating an operating system while telling everyone to go fork themselves. The man literally wrote Git because other version control systems weren't worthy of his code. And that, friends, is why Linux runs the internet while you're still rebooting Windows.

That moment of existential dread when a coworker checks out your Git branch and sees the unholy abomination of code you've been working on. Suddenly all your variable names like final_final_v2_WORKS and those 47 commented-out debugging console.log() statements are on full display. Your commit messages reading "fix stuff" and "please work" aren't helping your case either. The digital equivalent of someone walking into your house while it's an absolute disaster.

Companies pretending they're protecting "intellectual property" when the real reason they won't open source their code is because it's a horrifying mess of spaghetti logic, hardcoded credentials, and comments like "// TODO: fix this before demo (2018)". The corporate PR spin: "Our proprietary algorithms give us competitive advantage!" The actual codebase: 47 nested if-statements and a function called hack_it_until_it_works() that somehow powers the entire billing system.

The iceberg of software development. That tiny tip poking above the waterline? That's what makes it into the standup meeting. The massive frozen mountain of despair below? That's debugging why the CI/CD pipeline failed at 3 AM, refactoring legacy code that predates your birth, attending meetings about meetings, explaining to management why you can't "just add a button," writing documentation nobody will read, fixing merge conflicts, optimizing queries that shouldn't exist, and contemplating career changes while waiting for npm install to finish. But sure, tell me again how you "just write code all day."