Never Ask A Vibe Coder About Their Commits

That moment when you're faced with the eternal developer dilemma: spend an entire day making the codebase better or just slap together some hacky solution that'll come back to haunt you in six months. The hand reaching for that "minimum effort hack" button is all of us at 4:55pm on a Friday. Sure, you could refactor everything properly, but then your PR would be 2000 files and nobody wants to review that monstrosity anyway. Technical debt? That's a problem for Future You. And Future You hates Current You for a reason.

Oh honey, you call that "refactoring"? 💅 Moving a file to another directory while its commit history BURNS TO THE GROUND is the software equivalent of arson! Git is over there SCREAMING in agony while you're just standing there with that smug little smile thinking "I've improved the codebase!" Sweetie, that's not refactoring, that's WITNESS PROTECTION for your terrible code! Now all evidence of your past coding crimes has mysteriously vanished! *dramatic hair flip*

The evolution of commit messages is the programmer's descent into madness. First panel: "Bugfix" - the bare minimum effort when you just want to go home. Second panel: "102: Fixed double-jump" - slightly better, at least there's a ticket number. Third panel: "fix: double-jump bug in PlayerController; resolves issue #102" - the brief moment of professionalism when you think someone might actually read your commits. Fourth panel: "Lots of changes lol; Fixed low key sus double-jump yeeting players off map; also fire refactor of all movement physics fr" - the complete breakdown where you're mixing conventional commits with stream-of-consciousness ramblings and Gen Z slang. This is what happens at 3 AM when you've been debugging the same issue since yesterday and your brain is running on energy drinks and spite.

The eternal struggle of picking up where you left off! The proper way? Detailed commit messages. The realistic way? Random notes. The galaxy brain way? Frantically mashing Ctrl+Z until you recognize something, followed by the inevitable panic of realizing you went too far and desperately hitting Ctrl+Shift+Z to recover. Nothing says "professional software engineer" quite like time-traveling through your code history via undo/redo shortcuts while muttering obscenities under your breath.

The duality of developer existence: "These CI checks are required" vs "Fire anyone who bypasses them." Nothing radicalizes a developer faster than watching someone merge code that failed every test while you've been fighting for three days to get your perfectly valid PR to pass that one flaky test. The Kermit meme perfectly captures that moment when you go from "we should follow best practices" to "commit git arson against those who defy the CI gods."

The hierarchy of developer validation is hilariously backwards. 1000 Instagram followers? Meh. 100 Twitter followers? Whatever. 5 Reddit followers? Now we're talking. But 1 GitHub follower? ABSOLUTE GODMODE ACTIVATED. That single GitHub follower means someone actually values your code enough to stalk your digital creations. It's like having a secret admirer who's into your algorithms instead of your looks. Essentially the programming equivalent of being chosen by the cool kids. Meanwhile, your mom still thinks you "fix computers" for a living.