Coding-nostalgia Memes

Junior dev energy: take your time, reinvent the wheel, sprinkle in some console.logs like confetti, feel like a genius when it finally works. Senior dev reality: do everything faster, make zero mistakes, and somehow also mentor three people while reviewing PRs. The pressure scales inversely with your ability to enjoy the craft. Back then you could break prod and learn from it. Now you break prod and update your LinkedIn.