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Welcome To The Family

Welcome To The Family
That beautiful moment when your intern finally achieves their first production outage. You've taught them well—they've graduated from "works on my machine" to "oh god what have I done." The tears in your eyes aren't from sadness; they're from pride. Your padawan has learned that the real development environment is production, and the real testing happens when users start screaming. They're no longer just pushing code to staging and calling it a day. They've joined the ranks of developers who've had to write a postmortem at 2 PM on a Friday. Welcome to the club, kid. The on-call rotation is on the fridge.

Re Joined Cloudflare Again As Intern

Re Joined Cloudflare Again As Intern
So you left Cloudflare, probably for that "amazing opportunity" at a startup that promised equity and ping pong tables, only to realize the grass isn't always greener. Now you're back at the same company, but this time as an intern. The demotion is real, and that fancy reception desk is giving off some serious "we both know what happened here" vibes. The boomerang employee phenomenon hits different when you come back at a lower level. At least the office still looks nice, and hey, Cloudflare's CDN is pretty solid, so there's that. Maybe this time you'll appreciate the free coffee and stable infrastructure before chasing the next shiny thing.

Rocket Has Prod Access

Rocket Has Prod Access
Ah, the classic "intern with prod access" scenario – possibly the most terrifying combination since mixing regex and nuclear launch codes. The raccoon manning a golden machine gun perfectly captures that moment when the lowest-ranking team member somehow gets superuser privileges to the production environment. Everyone else has wisely evacuated the premises because they know what happens next: unreviewed code changes, accidental database drops, and configuration "improvements" that bring down the entire infrastructure. That raccoon's about to deploy straight to prod with the same chaotic energy it uses to raid garbage cans. Senior devs are probably hiding under their desks right now, frantically typing up their resumes while the on-call engineer contemplates a new career in organic farming.

When You Casually Mention Force Push

When You Casually Mention Force Push
That moment when you casually tell the intern to "just force push" to fix their git history, and suddenly the entire Slack channel erupts in chaos because they've obliterated three weeks of commits. Should've mentioned the --force-with-lease flag. Rookie mistake... on your part.

Still No Idea How It Happened, Right?

Still No Idea How It Happened, Right?
The classic tale of an intern's first week: accidentally running DROP DATABASE instead of DROP TABLE and then pretending to be as surprised as everyone else. That wide-eyed innocent look isn't fooling anyone, buddy. The best part? The senior dev doesn't even suspect it was you—they're just puzzled by the mysterious database vanishing act. Pro tip: production databases and interns should be kept at least 500 miles apart at all times. It's basically Newton's lesser-known Fourth Law of Motion.

Cowabunga! One Intern Away From Digital Armageddon

Cowabunga! One Intern Away From Digital Armageddon
OH MY STARS AND GARTERS! The entire technological empire—a towering, precarious stack of digital systems built over decades by countless engineers—and then there's the poor intern with a SLINGSHOT ready to bring it all crashing down with one misplaced commit! 💀 That fragile house of cards we call "infrastructure" is literally one confused newbie away from total annihilation. The audacity of putting someone who just learned what a terminal is anywhere NEAR production systems! It's like handing a toddler the nuclear codes and saying "don't press the red button, sweetie!"

Idk What To Do With These Interns Anymore

Idk What To Do With These Interns Anymore
When the senior dev says "set up the network switch" and the intern takes it literally . Nothing says "enterprise-grade infrastructure" quite like a switch duct-taped to the ceiling with cables dangling like some avant-garde IT installation art. The blinking lights add that special touch of "it's technically working so don't touch it." Five years later, this temporary solution will still be running production traffic while documented in the company wiki as "ceiling network node alpha."

Technical Writer: The Eternal Punishment

Technical Writer: The Eternal Punishment
Poor intern just discovered the eternal punishment that is documentation. That look of betrayal when you realize writing docs isn't a one-off task but a never-ending nightmare that will haunt your entire career. The innocence is gone. The rage is building. Welcome to software development, kid—where code is temporary but documentation is forever. And somehow always outdated anyway.

The Chess Game Of Bug Fixing

The Chess Game Of Bug Fixing
The corporate hierarchy of bug fixing, illustrated as a chess game where nobody actually knows what's happening. The intern is confidently saying "Yes" (they fixed the bugs), the team leader is asking "What code?" (they don't even know what codebase needs fixing), and the senior developer who originally asked the question is responding with a flat "No" (because they know better than to believe anyone). It's the perfect representation of software development chaos where the person with the least experience is the most confident, and the person with the most experience has completely given up on expecting competence. The circle of technical debt is complete!

The Intern's Production Database Adventure

The Intern's Production Database Adventure
That moment of pure existential horror when you spot the intern casually connecting to your production database through some sketchy website you've never seen before. The same database that powers your entire company. The same database that took you three all-nighters to optimize last month. And they're just... clicking around. Exploring. Writing queries . Without a WHERE clause in sight. Your soul leaves your body as you realize they have admin privileges somehow. You're not even mad—you're just impressed at how quickly they've found a way to bypass all seven layers of security you implemented.

The New Pandemic: Vibe-Coding Gone Viral

The New Pandemic: Vibe-Coding Gone Viral
That moment when your face physically contorts from the pain of reviewing an intern's code, only to discover HR wants to hire them permanently . It's like finding a production database with no backups and realizing the CTO thinks it's "innovative." The horror intensifies when you remember you'll be maintaining that spaghetti code long after the "vibe-coding" wunderkind has moved on to their next unsuspecting victim. The real pandemic isn't viral—it's nested ternary operators with no comments!

Senior Does The Same Thing Lol

Senior Does The Same Thing Lol
The AUDACITY of this intern! 😱 What we're witnessing here is the ancient debugging ritual where senior devs ask juniors how they fixed something, expecting some elaborate algorithmic wizardry—only to discover the fix was literally just adding comments to the code. The senior's face of absolute HORROR is the programming equivalent of finding out your five-star meal was actually microwaved. And yet... secretly every developer knows commenting the code sometimes magically makes bugs disappear while you're trying to explain the problem. It's basically programming voodoo that somehow WORKS. The universe's greatest mystery!