Factory pattern Memes

Java developers have this special talent for turning a simple problem into an architectural masterpiece nobody asked for. You need to create an order? Cool. But wait—what if we need an interface for flexibility? And obviously we need a factory to create those orders. But hold on, what if we need to create factories? Better make a factory factory . And naturally, that factory factory needs an interface too. Before you know it, you've got 47 files just to instantiate a single object. The best part? They'll defend this madness by saying it's "maintainable" and "testable" while the rest of us are shipping features. Enterprise Java turned abstraction into a competitive sport, and honestly, they're winning medals nobody wants. Meanwhile, Python devs are over here like: order = Order() and calling it a day.

The top panel shows the simple, elegant approach to coding that we all pretend to advocate for in design meetings: just instantiate a class and call a method. Clean. Direct. Sensible. But then there's what we actually do when no one's watching (bottom panel): create an unholy chain of factories, managers, services, observers, and other enterprise patterns that would make even the most dedicated architecture astronaut blush. It's the classic "I could write this in 3 lines, but my resume needs buzzwords" approach. We've all been there—turning a simple task into a dissertation-worthy implementation because "scalability" and "best practices," when really we just wanted to flex our design pattern muscles.