Code-not-working Memes

You know that special kind of insanity where your code refuses to work, so you stare at it for 20 minutes, change absolutely nothing, run it again, and somehow expect different results? Yeah, that's the developer equivalent of checking the fridge multiple times hoping new food magically appeared. The best part? Sometimes it actually does work the second time because of some race condition, cached state, or cosmic alignment you'll never understand. And that's exactly why we keep doing it. We've been conditioned by random success to believe in the power of the unchanged re-run. Pro tip: After the third identical run, it's time to actually read the error message instead of just vibing with the red text.

You copy-paste code from a tutorial character by character, triple-check every semicolon, and somehow it still refuses to work. Meanwhile, the tutorial creator is probably running it on some mystical configuration you'll never replicate. Maybe they're on a different Node version. Maybe their environment variables are blessed by ancient gods. Maybe you forgot to restart your server for the 47th time. The real kicker? When you finally give up and write it yourself from scratch, it works immediately. Programming is just gaslighting yourself with tutorials.