Future self Memes

The gradual transformation into a clown perfectly captures the self-delusion cycle every developer goes through when skipping comments. First, you're confident. Then, slightly doubtful. By the third stage, you're in full circus mode, realizing future-you will have absolutely no idea what that cryptic one-liner does. The final form? Complete clown status when you're debugging your own uncommented code at 2AM six months later, wondering which genius wrote this incomprehensible masterpiece. Spoiler alert: it was you.

Every dev has said it: "It's so intuitive, why waste time documenting it?" Fast forward six months, and you're staring at your own code like it's hieroglyphics written by a caffeinated squirrel. That tea bag floating in water is the perfect metaphor - what seems crystal clear to you now becomes a murky, unidentifiable mess for the poor soul (probably future you) who has to figure out what the hell you were thinking. Documentation isn't for today's genius you; it's for tomorrow's confused you who just wants to go home.

That magical moment when you write some unholy abomination of code at 3 AM that somehow works perfectly. Six months later, you return to fix a bug and stare at your own creation like it's written in hieroglyphics. The documentation? Non-existent. Comments? What comments? Just you, your past self's cryptic logic, and the crushing realization that you've become your own technical debt.