Coding-then-vs-now Memes

Back in the day, "I coded it all by myself" meant you actually wrote every line of code from scratch, probably in C++ or something equally painful. You built your own physics engine, your own UI framework, and debugged segmentation faults until 3 AM. Now? "I coded it all by myself" means you successfully npm installed 47 packages, copied some Stack Overflow snippets, imported 12 different libraries, and somehow got them to work together without breaking. Your app is basically a Frankenstein's monster of dependencies held together by duct tape and prayer. The "VIBE CODE" shirt really captures the essence of modern development—it's less about understanding algorithms and more about vibing with the ecosystem until something works. Your node_modules folder probably weighs more than the actual code you wrote.