Recursion

Content if (condition) return A; return B; Lawful Good if (condition) return A; else if (!condition) return B; Lawful Neutral switch (condition) case true: return A; default: return B; Lawful Evil if (condition) return A; else return B; Neutral Good return condition ? A : B; True Neutral return A, B! condition; Neutral Evil for (; condition;) return A; return B; Chaotic Good return condition A I B; Chaotic Neutral try return B; finally if (condition) return A; Chaotic Evil

Content When you mistype obj.fied1 instead of x obj. field C Compile time wrong, wrong wrongi stop everything Runtime hmm mavbe that's right? Python 00 no, wait, that's wrong! Javascript 008 TIME ()

The haunting specter of a system architect silencing a junior developer who just uttered the cursed phrase "We should rewrite it in JavaScript." Every engineering team has witnessed this ancient ritual: the bright-eyed junior suggesting a complete rewrite in the framework-of-the-month while the architect, who's survived 17 rewrites and still has nightmares about the last one, performs the sacred gesture of "please stop talking before I have to explain why we're not rebuilding our entire infrastructure because you watched a cool YouTube video."

Frontend devs showing off their new project like: "Check out this sick bowl reveal!" *adds another div wrapper* Now it's a completely different bowl! Revolutionary UI/UX right there. Nothing says "I know what I'm doing" like nesting divs 17 layers deep until your DOM looks like a Russian doll family reunion. The browser's just silently weeping in the corner.

Converting a simple 600-line form to React Hooks is the programming equivalent of opening a small kitchen drawer only to find yourself in a calculus fever dream. What should have been a quick refactor turns into a day-long mental breakdown where you question every life decision that led you to becoming a developer. Those floating math equations aren't just for show—they're the actual thoughts racing through your brain as you try to figure out why your useEffect is firing seventeen times and your state management resembles a plate of spaghetti thrown at the wall.

THE ABSOLUTE STATE OF MODERN PROGRAMMING! 😭 Look at us, the so-called "tech geniuses" of our generation, reduced to begging AI overlords to fix our punctuation! I'm literally sitting here at 2AM, staring into the void, wondering if my entire career has come down to asking ChatGPT "pretty please add the semicolon I was too lazy to type." The semicolon - that tiny punctuation mark standing between me and functional code - and I've outsourced even THAT responsibility! Next thing you know, I'll be asking it to breathe for me because manual respiration seems like such a chore! The future is here, and it's pathetically hilarious!