The Four Horsemen Of Hardest Things To Undo

The tech industry's greatest magic trick: turning whiteboard algorithms into a career of Stack Overflow searches. That tiny blue bar represents the actual skills you'll use daily—git, debugging, and asking good questions. Meanwhile, that towering red bar is all the obscure sorting algorithms and binary tree inversions you crammed for, only to spend your actual job googling "how to center div" for the 47th time. The real skill? Surviving the technical hazing ritual we call "the interview process" while pretending those skills will totally transfer to your day job.

Intelligence and programming knowledge are two entirely different beasts. Nothing quite says "senior developer" like Googling basic Git commands for the 500th time while your partner questions their life choices. The rubber duck is probably the smartest entity in this relationship. Fun fact: The average developer spends approximately 30% of their career pretending they understand what a pipe does. The other 70% is spent explaining to non-technical people that no, they can't hack Facebook.

Imagine building the Great Pyramids without being able to git checkout -b new-pharaoh-idea . Those poor ancient devs had to drag 2-ton stone blocks around with zero rollback capability. One architect accidentally puts a block in the wrong place and it's like "Well, guess we're stuck with that bug in production for the next 4,500 years." No wonder they carved hieroglyphics everywhere—that was literally their commit log. "Added another pointy layer, please don't touch, signed ~Imhotep."

Ah yes, the classic "fix" that fixes nothing. Committing your .env file to Git is like putting your house keys under the welcome mat and posting the address on Twitter. Sure, your code errors are gone... along with your database credentials, API keys, and whatever shred of respect your senior dev had for you. But hey, ship it.

Ah, the legendary GitHub pull request to rewrite Twitter in COBOL! For the uninitiated, COBOL is a programming language from the 1950s that's still running critical banking systems and government infrastructure, but about as suited for modern social media as a steam engine is for space travel. The satirical PR suggestion is pure comedy gold—imagine handling Twitter's real-time feeds and media processing with a language designed when computers took up entire rooms and "memory" meant physical punch cards! The 17 thumbs-up reactions show there are plenty of developers with a sense of humor (or masochistic tendencies). Meanwhile, somewhere a mainframe administrator is breaking into a cold sweat thinking about the 400-column code needed just to display a single tweet.

Remember when code reviews meant finding your coworker's spaghetti logic and passive-aggressive variable names? Now it's just you, questioning your existence while scrutinizing AI-generated code that's somehow both flawless and completely nonsensical. The modern code reviewer: frantically Googling obscure algorithms at 2 AM because you can't tell if GitHub Copilot is brilliant or hallucinating. "Is this O(log n) solution actually genius or am I being gaslit by a language model that learned to code from Stack Overflow?" Nothing grinds your gears quite like spending your precious human life debugging code written by a machine that doesn't even get tired or need coffee breaks.