If statements Memes

When Your Code Is So Bad It Breaks Your Friend

4 days ago 60.7K views 0 shares

Your friend wasn't speechless because your code was good. They were having an existential crisis watching you check 95 individual age values instead of using a simple comparison operator. It's like building a staircase one pebble at a time when you could just use a ramp. That moment when if age >= 18 would've saved you 90 lines of code and your dignity. But hey, at least you're thorough!

Reject Modernity, Embrace Tradition: The Null-Checking Edition

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12 days ago 77.3K views 0 shares

Reject Modernity, Embrace Tradition: The Null-Checking Edition

The eternal struggle between modern and traditional null-checking approaches! The top shows Kotlin's fancy safe call operator ( nullableThing? ) with the let block—a one-liner that handles nulls elegantly. Meanwhile, the bottom shows the old-school explicit null check with an if statement that your grandfather probably wrote in Java back when dial-up internet was still cool. Developers with Stockholm syndrome for verbose code are nodding in agreement with "Embrace tradition" while secretly knowing the top version is objectively better but requires learning something new. It's like choosing between a smart electric car and a gas-guzzling muscle car because "they don't make 'em like they used to!"

Is "AI" A Buzzword?

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12 days ago 68.7K views 0 shares

The background is literally screaming "AI AI AI AI" while the foreground shows the letters "AI" in giant orange font. It's like when your product manager asks "Can we add AI to this?" and your codebase is just a glorified if-statement. The confused expression perfectly captures that moment when someone asks if you're using "real AI" in your project and you're mentally calculating whether your nested conditional statements count as machine learning. Bonus points if you've ever renamed a variable to "ai_something" just to satisfy stakeholders.

Machine Learning Overkill

AI Algorithms Programming Backend

14 days ago 88.8K views 0 shares

Ah, the classic "let's use a sledgehammer to kill a fly" approach. Every tech startup these days thinks they need machine learning to solve problems that could be handled with an if-statement and a cup of coffee. After 15 years in the industry, I've sat through countless pitch meetings where some bright-eyed founder explains how their revolutionary AI will disrupt the sandwich-ordering process. Meanwhile, their actual problem is that they can't figure out how to store user preferences in a database. The real kicker? When they finally implement their neural network to predict topping preferences, it works worse than random chance. But hey, at least they can put "AI-powered" in their pitch deck!

Code Therapy Session

Programming Typescript Javascript Debugging

17 days ago 63.3K views 0 shares

Therapy for programmers looks different. The code snippet shows the classic "if not condition, do whatever" pattern - the digital equivalent of shrugging and walking away from a problem. That smug look? It's the face of someone who's written untraceable bugs into production and feels absolutely zero remorse about it. The real mental health crisis in tech isn't burnout, it's the emotional void where code accountability should be.

This Shit Again

AI Algorithms Math Programming Python

19 days ago 103.1K views 0 shares

When your boss says "we need to implement machine learning" but all you really need is a simple if-statement. The eternal struggle of devs everywhere - getting asked to use a sledgehammer when a regular hammer would do just fine. The math behind ML is the unsexy reality nobody wants to talk about at standup.

Probably The Least Annoying Feature Of VBA

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20 days ago 76.6K views 0 shares

Probably The Least Annoying Feature Of VBA

VBA's syntax is the coding equivalent of that friend who keeps asking obvious questions just to watch you suffer. While most modern languages sensibly use curly braces or indentation, VBA forces you to type out full sentences like you're writing a strongly-worded letter to your compiler. End If , End While , End Function , End Sub , End Your Sanity ... it's like Microsoft wanted to ensure you spend half your coding time just closing statements. The real miracle is that VBA developers haven't collectively End ed their careers yet.

I Hate When Someone Does This

Javascript Csharp Typescript Programming Python

24 days ago 65.5K views 0 shares

Left side: if (x) - Clean, elegant, gets the job done. The face of a developer who writes efficient code and doesn't waste keystrokes. Right side: if (x == true) - The haunting visage of someone who also types "ATM machine" and enters their "PIN number" at the "LCD display." Probably uses light mode in their IDE too. The explicit comparison is redundant since the condition already evaluates to a boolean. It's like ordering a "hamburger with meat" - we know, that's what makes it a hamburger.

When Your Code Review Is Actually A Career Opportunity

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25 days ago 70.2K views 0 shares

When Your Code Review Is Actually A Career Opportunity

Someone's complaining about camelCase while writing a function that could be replaced with return number % 2 == 0 . The irony is thicker than the stack of unnecessary if statements. This is what happens when you optimize for LinkedIn engagement instead of code efficiency. Must be nice having that much time between standup meetings.

The Infinite Else If Rabbit Hole

AI Algorithms Javascript Programming Python

1 month ago 87.2K views 0 shares

Ever wondered how modern AI was built? Just picture a desperate developer with a thousand-mile stare chaining together an ungodly number of else if statements like some deranged code wizard. The meme brilliantly captures that moment when your conditional logic has spiraled so far out of control that you're just shouting more conditions into the void. It's the programming equivalent of throwing spaghetti at the wall, except the spaghetti is else if statements and the wall is a deadline that passed three days ago.

We Are Not The Same

Programming C++ Javascript Python Java

1 month ago 105.9K views 0 shares

You use if statements with spaces after the keyword. I use the proper syntax with no space. That stern look isn't just for show—it's the face of someone who's saved kilobytes across a career by eliminating unnecessary whitespace. Ten years from now, when your codebase is 17KB larger than mine for no functional benefit, you'll understand. Efficiency isn't just about algorithms; it's a lifestyle.

The Hardcoded Chess Nightmare

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1 month ago 96.3K views 0 shares

When your friend discovers you're hardcoding an entire chess game by manually printing each board state for every possible move. 2.6 million lines of code instead of using a chess library or even basic loops? That's not programming, that's digital masochism. The real checkmate here isn't on the board—it's the developer's sanity. Somewhere, a computer science professor just felt a disturbance in the force and doesn't know why.

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