Coding stress Memes

The juxtaposition between the elderly person in the image and "Marjorie, 27" is peak developer humor. Those asterisks around "love" are doing some heavy lifting—the universal syntax for "this variable contains pure sarcasm." Every developer knows that feeling when you're 3 weeks into debugging a race condition and your soul has aged 50 years. Your LinkedIn still says 27, but your git blame history has you looking like you invented COBOL.

Whoever told Google that software development is "low-stress" clearly never had to fix a production bug at 2 AM while the CEO breathes down their neck. Next thing you'll tell me is that JavaScript frameworks don't change every 12 minutes and git merge conflicts resolve themselves! The irony is so rich it could pay off my student loans from that CS degree that promised me a "balanced lifestyle."