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Senior Vs Principal: The Great Developer Betrayal

4 days ago 52.9K views 0 shares

THE CAREER EVOLUTION NOBODY WARNED YOU ABOUT! 😱 Senior developer surrounded by cool IDEs and Git? LIVING THE DREAM with IntelliJ, VS Code, and Sublime! Look at that SMILE! That's the face of someone who hasn't seen a spreadsheet in YEARS! Then you get promoted to Principal and BOOM! Your life is now an endless hellscape of Jira, Excel, and Microsoft Teams meetings! That's not a frown—that's the facial expression of someone who hasn't written actual code since Obama was president! 💀 They never tell you the truth in those career progression meetings: more money = less code, more meetings. The ultimate tech career betrayal!

Choose Your Fighter: Job Title Edition

Programming Devops

11 days ago 53.8K views 0 shares

The job title inflation chart nobody asked for but everyone needed. Same person, different LinkedIn profile updates as they discover the salary brackets. "Coder" is the angry intern fixing bugs for pizza. "Programmer" is what you call yourself after learning a for-loop. "Developer" comes with the first paycheck that covers rent. "Software Engineer" appears magically after your first successful pull request. "Software Architect" is just you refusing to write code while drawing boxes on whiteboards at 3x the salary.

After Some Years I No Longer Care Tbh

Webdev Microsoft Windows Javascript Programming

11 days ago 65.2K views 0 shares

First day as a web developer: *IDE shows Internet Explorer compatibility error* "MY GOD THE SITE IS BROKEN!" Five years later: *same error appears* "Anyway..." The career progression of a frontend dev can be measured precisely by how dead inside you become when IE throws another tantrum. Eventually you just develop that thousand-yard stare and keep coding.

Four Years Of Programming Experience

Programming Webdev Debugging Frontend

12 days ago 60.4K views 0 shares

The eternal developer paradox captured in one image. Four years of coding and suddenly you're expected to be a guru? The confident cat on the left is what non-technical people imagine—a seasoned expert with "lots of knowledge." The traumatized cat on the right is the reality—staring into the void, questioning if you know anything at all. The more you learn, the more you realize how little you actually know. Four years in and you're still Googling how to center a div and wondering if anyone else feels like they're just making it up as they go. Spoiler alert: we all are.

Senior Wisdom

Programming Git StackOverflow Debugging

21 days ago 69.2K views 0 shares

Junior developer: "How do I remember what my code does?" Senior developer: "That's the neat part. You don't." The true hallmark of experience isn't perfect memory—it's the calm acceptance that you'll inevitably forget everything you write. That's why we have comments, documentation, and git blame. The senior's mustache contains more wisdom than all of StackOverflow combined.

The Career Ladder To Meeting Hell

Programming Devops Agile

21 days ago 82.4K views 0 shares

The career progression nobody warns you about: from actually building stuff to just talking about building stuff. Junior devs naively spend most of their day coding and learning, blissfully unaware of their future. Senior devs still manage to code but sacrifice learning time for meetings. And then there's the final boss form - Lead Dev - whose entire existence is just back-to-back meetings where they reminisce about "the good old days when I used to code." The teeth-gritting bear at the bottom is every lead dev internally screaming while scheduling yet another "quick sync" that could've been an email. Career advancement is just trading your IDE for a calendar app.

Because An Array Always Starts At Zero

Debugging Programming Testing

1 month ago 68.2K views 0 shares

The career progression of debugging in four panels: Junior dev: "Wrong! You're doing wrong bro!" - Screams at the code like it's a moral failing. Mid-level: "You have to adjust a bit" - Tries gentle persuasion, as if the code might respond to politeness. Senior-in-training: "You blind man!" - Resorts to insults when the bug persists. Senior dev: *silently pours entire can of energy drink into glass* - Has transcended verbal debugging for pure caffeine-powered persistence. The last "..." speech bubble says everything about the resigned acceptance that comes with experience. The product is the glass that's supposed to hold your code. No amount of shouting will fix a bug. Sometimes you just need to drown your sorrows in caffeine and keep going.

Still Junior At Heart

Programming Backend

1 month ago 81.5K views 0 shares

After 8 years in the trenches, I still introduce myself as a "junior who's been around a while." Why accept the crushing responsibility of being "senior" when you can be a "señor" instead? Just add a sombrero, a bow tie, and suddenly your impostor syndrome has a fancy accent and better work-life balance. The flames in the background? That's just the production server I was supposed to be monitoring.

Made Alot Of Money

Programming Webdev StackOverflow Debugging

1 month ago 76.7K views 0 shares

The expectation vs reality of programming career progression! First year: bright-eyed, hopeful, thinking you'll build the next billion-dollar app. Fourth year: slightly chubbier, dead inside, realizing you're just fixing the same bugs in legacy code while your IDE slowly consumes your RAM. The title "Made Alot Of Money" is the ultimate ironic cherry on top—because the only thing that's grown is your caffeine tolerance and collection of Stack Overflow bookmarks. The real money was the existential dread we accumulated along the way!

Engineering Career Framework

Programming Webdev Agile Frontend

1 month ago 93.6K views 0 shares

Ah, the battle-hardened senior dev vs. the fresh-faced junior. The senior is literally taking arrows from all sides—office politics, changing requirements, and those ever-looming deadlines—while still finding time to compliment the junior's CSS button. It's the perfect metaphor for tech career progression. By the time you reach senior level, you're not just writing code—you're a human shield absorbing corporate chaos while trying to mentor the next generation who think their biggest achievement is centering a div. The junior has no idea what's coming. None of us did. One day you're excited about button styling, the next you're in eight hours of meetings discussing "synergy" while your Jira tickets multiply like rabbits.

New Kidin Town

Programming AI Webdev Frontend Backend

1 month ago 100.1K views 0 shares

The evolution of software engineering in its natural habitat! First, we have the innocent "Software Engineer" - just a regular Pooh bear doing honest work. Then there's the slightly pretentious "Sr Software Engineer" - same bear, just wearing a tux and acting fancy because they learned what a design pattern is. But the final form? The "pRoMpt eNgiNeEr" with that cursed ransom-note typography - it's just a deranged panda typing "make me a website that looks like Amazon but better" into ChatGPT and calling it coding. The tech industry's equivalent of ordering a pizza and claiming you made dinner.

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