Back-in-my-day Memes

Back in the day, programmers would write entire compilers in C without internet access like absolute legends. Now? We panic when a permission dialog pops up because we're too scared to click "Skip" without Googling what it does first. The devolution is real. We went from building operating systems in assembly to being paralyzed by a two-button dialog box. To be fair though, clicking the wrong button could brick your entire dev environment, delete your node_modules folder (wait, that's a feature), or worse—sign you up for a newsletter. The swole doge vs. weak doge format perfectly captures this descent into dependency hell. We've traded raw programming power for Stack Overflow searches and npm packages that do one thing our grandparents could've written in 3 lines.