The Four Stages Of Developer Evolution

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The Four Stages Of Developer Evolution

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The coding journey depicted as a mountain climb is painfully accurate! First, you're just "learning to code" - a gentle uphill battle where everything seems possible. Then comes "tutorial hell" where you're stuck following guides without understanding why things work. Eventually, you reach "coding semi-comfortably" where the slope levels out and you feel like you've finally got this... until "VERSION CONTROL" appears as a vertical cliff that sends you plummeting into the abyss of merge conflicts and commit nightmares. The sudden transition from solo coding bliss to the harsh reality of collaboration is like discovering your comfortable pillow fort is actually built on quicksand.

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