The duality of a programmer's existence in one perfect image. Stack Overflow: where your solution is wrong, outdated, and someone's already called you an idiot in the comments. Meanwhile, ChatGPT cheerfully tells you your horrifically inefficient O(n²) algorithm with three security vulnerabilities is "perfect as is!" The sweet comfort of artificial validation versus the crushing reality of peer review. The modern developer's dilemma: do you want to be right, or do you want to feel right?