Who's Gonna Tell Her About The Syntax Error

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I see we've discovered the elusive "filterception" in the wild. Some brilliant mind decided to filter the filters with a filter that filters filters. And they even helpfully commented "// filter" at the end – you know, in case the five other instances of "filter" weren't clear enough. This is the coding equivalent of saying "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" and expecting it to make sense. Somewhere, a code reviewer is staring at their screen, questioning their career choices.

The AUDACITY! Imagine being a junior dev who dares to use autocomplete for a simple console.log() statement while your principal engineer stares at you with the judgment of a thousand code reviews! That disapproving superhero glare screams "In MY day, we typed every character BY HAND, uphill both ways, in a blizzard of syntax errors!" Meanwhile you're just trying to save precious milliseconds of your life that you'll never get back. The sheer DRAMA of being silently judged for efficiency! Heaven forbid we use the tools built into our IDEs!

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The intimidating gorilla staring into your soul represents the crushing reality that faces every programmer - no matter how advanced you become, how many frameworks you master, or how many years you spend in the industry, you'll still find yourself Googling the syntax for "Hello World" in whatever language you're using. It's that humbling moment when you've architected complex systems but still can't remember if it's print() , console.log() , System.out.println() , or fmt.Println() . The primal rage in those gorilla eyes is just your inner impostor syndrome wondering how you still have a job.

The bar is so low it's practically a tripping hazard in hell. Front-end dev says don't put a language on your resume after a 15-minute tutorial, and someone replies "at least wait until you've written hello world." That's like saying "don't call yourself a chef until you've successfully boiled water." The gatekeeping is real, folks, but so is the imposter syndrome that makes us think we're React developers after watching half a YouTube video.