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Stay In Your Lane Bruv
Backend Webdev Agile Programming Frontend
6 days ago 375.0K views 0 shares
Stay In Your Lane Bruv
You know that junior dev who just finished a React tutorial and suddenly thinks they're qualified to redesign your entire microservices architecture? That's what's happening here. The vibe coder—bless their heart—has wandered into a system design meeting armed with nothing but confidence and a Figma account. The architects are giving them that look. You know the one. The "please stop talking before you suggest we store everything in localStorage" look. System design meetings are where you discuss scalability, data flow, and whether your database will survive Black Friday traffic. It's not the place for "what if we just made it look cooler?" Stay in your lane, focus on those CSS animations, and let the backend folks argue about CAP theorem in peace.

Well At Least He Knows What Is BS
Algorithms Programming
9 days ago 262.8K views 0 shares
Well At Least He Knows What Is BS
Binary search requires a sorted array to work. A linked list? Sure, you can traverse to the middle element, but you just burned O(n) time getting there. Then you do it again. And again. Congratulations, you've just reinvented linear search with extra steps and way more complexity. The junior dev technically knows what binary search is, which is more than some can say. But applying it to a linked list is like bringing a Ferrari to a swamp—impressive knowledge, terrible execution. At least they're learning the hard way that data structures matter just as much as algorithms. Give it a few more code reviews and they'll get there.

The Uncalled Function Destroyer
Git Programming Debugging Backend
9 days ago 302.5K views 1 shares
The Uncalled Function Destroyer
Seventeen days in and this developer has already achieved enlightenment: deleting dead code with zero hesitation. Most engineers spend months tiptoeing around unused functions like they're ancient artifacts that might curse the entire codebase if disturbed. Not this legend. They're out here Marie Kondo-ing the repo on day seventeen, yeeting functions straight to main like they own the place. The energy here is immaculate. No pull request anxiety, no "but what if we need it later?" Just pure, unfiltered confidence in code deletion. Either they're incredibly brave or their onboarding process was chef's kiss . Meanwhile, senior devs are probably sweating bullets wondering if that function was actually load-bearing for some obscure edge case from 2019. Pro tip: Dead code is like that gym membership you never use. It costs nothing to keep around, but deep down you know it's just taking up space and making you feel guilty.

The Code AI Wrote Is Too Complicated
AI Programming Debugging
12 days ago 144.4K views 0 shares
The Code AI Wrote Is Too Complicated
Junior dev writes spaghetti code? Unreadable mess. Senior dev writes spaghetti code? "Architectural brilliance." AI writes spaghetti code? Suddenly everyone's a code quality advocate. The double standard is real. We've gone from blaming juniors to blaming ChatGPT for the same nested ternary operators and callback hell. Plot twist: maybe the AI learned from reading senior dev code on GitHub. Ever think about that? Fun fact: studies show developers spend more time complaining about code complexity than actually refactoring it. This meme just proves we'll find any excuse to avoid admitting we don't understand something.

If A Potato Can Become Vodka, You Can Become A Web Developer
Webdev Javascript Programming Frontend
12 days ago 265.2K views 0 shares
If A Potato Can Become Vodka, You Can Become A Web Developer
So apparently the bar for web development is now "slightly more complex than fermentation." Love how this motivational poster implies that becoming a web developer requires the same level of transformation as rotting in a barrel for months. Honestly? Pretty accurate. You start as a raw, starchy beginner, get mashed up by CSS layouts, fermented in JavaScript confusion, and eventually distilled into someone who can center a div. The process is painful, involves a lot of breaking down, and at the end you're either smooth and refined or you give people headaches. Either way, you'll be dealing with a lot of bugs—though in web dev they're not the yeast kind.

Please Test More
Testing Devops Programming Debugging
5 months ago 221.3K views 0 shares
Please Test More
Oh. My. GOD. The absolute DELUSION happening here! 😂 Senior Dev and Junior Dev are having the time of their lives, CACKLING like hyenas over a QA report claiming "No new bugs found." The AUDACITY! The FANTASY! The pure, unadulterated FICTION! It's like claiming you've found a unicorn riding a rainbow! Everyone in software knows that "no bugs found" is just code for "we didn't look hard enough" or "the tests didn't cover anything meaningful." The QA team probably ran one test, clicked a button twice, and called it a day! 💅 Meanwhile, production is about to BURST into flames the second this gets deployed. But sure, keep laughing while Rome burns, developers!

Those Are Rookie Numbers
Agile Webdev Devops Programming
9 months ago 173.7K views 0 shares
Those Are Rookie Numbers
Oh man, this is EXACTLY how sprint planning goes down! 🔥 Junior dev shows up all proud with their measly 3 story points while the senior dev is sitting there with a smirk, ready to absolutely demolish the sprint with a TWENTY-ONE POINTER task! 💪 The Scrum Master's probably having a heart attack in the corner. "That's not how story points work!" Meanwhile Product Owner is frantically updating the burndown chart. Pure chaos! Every dev knows that feeling when you're about to drop the "actually this is way more complex than everyone thinks" bomb during estimation. Power move!