Expectations Memes

Left side: Buff Doge (experienced coder) casually dismisses AI tools that can't handle basic database setup. Right side: Regular Doge (noob coder) is absolutely blown away that AI generated a simple landing page in 5 minutes. The real irony? Both are using the same tool. The veteran knows its limitations while the rookie thinks they've discovered digital alchemy. Tale as old as time... or at least as old as npm.

The classic education bait-and-switch in three acts: First panel: An automatic transmission. "Here's a nice, simple abstraction with a few options. Just put it in drive and go!" Second panel: A manual transmission with extra steps. "Now go home and figure out how to drive stick while also doing donuts in a parking lot." Third panel: A literal spacecraft cockpit. "For your final exam, please land this Apollo module on the moon with half the fuel and a critical systems failure. You have 90 minutes. No pressure." Computer science degrees should come with trauma counseling.

The painful truth nobody warns you about in bootcamp! You dream of crafting elegant algorithms and building the next revolutionary app, but reality hits you with 8 hours of meetings, documentation, and explaining to project managers why adding that "small feature" would require rewriting the entire codebase. Meanwhile, your actual coding time has been reduced to those precious 15 minutes between the "quick sync" and the "end-of-day check-in." The modern developer: part therapist for legacy code, part translator between business and technology, and occasionally—if the stars align—allowed to write a few lines of code.

OH. MY. GOD. The sheer AUDACITY of these stairs! On the left, we have the beautiful, pristine, PERFECT blueprint with its elegant straight lines. And on the right? The absolute NIGHTMARE that some developer cobbled together while clearly having an existential crisis! This is what happens when you tell the junior dev "just follow the documentation" and then ABANDON THEM IN THE WILDERNESS OF IMPLEMENTATION! The blueprint said "stairs" and they delivered "abstract art installation that might kill someone." It's giving "I coded this at 2am with no code review" energy and I am LIVING for this disaster! The gap between design and reality has never been so hilariously, dangerously wide!

Oh honey, they said "coding is like a piano, you just need to learn how to use it" and CONVENIENTLY forgot to mention the part where the piano is ON FIRE, the sheet music is written in hieroglyphics, and someone keeps changing the laws of physics every time you press a key! 🔥 Sure, learning to code is "just like" learning an instrument—if that instrument occasionally EXPLODES when you hit the wrong note and the only instruction manual was written by someone who clearly hates you personally!