Keep It Simple Stupid

The beautiful irony of throwing an AssertionError with the message "Unreachable code reached" is just *chef's kiss*. It's the programming equivalent of installing a security camera inside a black hole. You're basically telling the compiler "this code will never execute" and then writing an error message for when it does execute. The cosmic paradox of defensive programming at its finest! This is the senior developer's version of "trust no one, not even yourself." They've been burned too many times by "impossible" edge cases showing up in production at 3 AM.

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Finally, a visual representation that my brain can process! Zero is an empty toilet paper roll that still exists and serves as a placeholder. Meanwhile, NULL is when the entire roll is missing—it's not just empty, it's gone , non-existent, undefined. The cardboard tube has left the building. This is exactly what keeps junior devs up at night. Zero is a legitimate value saying "there's nothing here, but I'm counting it." NULL screams "I refuse to acknowledge this variable's existence." And both will break your code in spectacularly different ways when you least expect it.

Why do the assigned task when you can build an entire automated system to avoid it? Nothing says "CS student energy" like spending 10x the effort to hack a solution rather than just watching those damn videos. College Board probably wanted to teach API integration anyway, right? The real lesson was the GraphQL queries we wrote along the way. Every developer knows that automating a 1-hour task with a 10-hour solution is the true mark of genius. It's not laziness—it's efficiency at scale . Future you will thank present you... maybe.

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