Attribution Memes

The secret sauce behind "beautiful code" is often just a well-executed Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V maneuver from Stack Overflow! That smug smile says it all—the pride of passing off someone else's elegant solution as your own creation. The modern programmer's workflow isn't complete without the sacred ritual of finding that perfect snippet and claiming intellectual ownership while silently thanking the coding gods who posted it. Remember, good programmers write good code, but great programmers know exactly what to steal!

The eternal cycle of software development. When someone compliments your code, there are only two possibilities: you spent weeks perfecting it, or you found it on Stack Overflow five minutes ago. The smug grin says it all – that beautiful algorithm with perfect variable naming wasn't crafted through years of experience, it was ctrl+c, ctrl+v from some poor soul who actually did the work. The greatest programmers aren't those who write the best code, but those who know where to steal it from.

Oh my gosh, the infinite loop of code theft! 😂 First StackOverflow gives ChatGPT all its knowledge, then ChatGPT claims it made it. Then a programmer steals from ChatGPT and proudly declares "I made this!" Only for the code to eventually make its way back to StackOverflow! It's the perfect representation of the modern dev cycle: copy from StackOverflow → paste into ChatGPT → ask for improvements → copy to your project → claim full credit in your performance review! The circle of code life!