First-try Memes

The greatest lie we tell ourselves during existential coding crises. That mythical moment when someone else's code—that incomprehensible mess of nested loops and questionable variable names—somehow works flawlessly on the first attempt. Meanwhile, your carefully crafted masterpiece crashes spectacularly after 17 refactors and a ritual sacrifice to the compiler gods. It's the programming equivalent of "I'm sure they'll text back" or "one more episode before bed." Pure self-delusion, but sometimes that's all that keeps us from hurling our laptops into the sun.

The suspicious stare that says "I don't trust code that works on the first try." Ten years in the trenches teaches you that immediate success is the most terrifying outcome possible. No errors? No warnings? Something is definitely wrong. The universe doesn't just hand out compiler blessings like that without planning some catastrophic runtime surprise later. The real debugging starts after your code works perfectly. That's when you frantically add console logs everywhere because silent success is far more concerning than a stack trace that at least has the decency to tell you what you broke.