Const-cast Memes

You know that soul-crushing moment when you need to modify a pointer but it's declared as const ? Yeah, you're about to cast that thing away like Tom Hanks abandoning Wilson into the ocean. Sure, you feel guilty about it. Sure, you know it's technically undefined behavior and violates const-correctness. But deadlines don't care about your moral compass, and sometimes you just gotta const_cast your way out of a problem and pretend the compiler warnings don't exist. The pain in those eyes? That's the pain of every C++ developer who's had to choose between elegant code and shipping on time.