Lotr Memes

The management curse strikes again! This meme perfectly captures that existential crisis when you're promoted from hands-on developer to team lead, and suddenly your days are consumed by meetings, emails, and putting out fires instead of the sweet, sweet dopamine hits from writing actual code. Just like Bilbo yearning for his simple hobbit life, you're now desperately dreaming of those uninterrupted coding sessions. Meanwhile, your side project gathers digital dust, waiting for that mythical "quiet time" that exists only in fantasy—much like Bilbo's dream of finishing his book. The true senior developer paradox: getting promoted for your coding skills only to never write code again. Congratulations on the career advancement... I guess?

Writing code without documentation is like casting spells you'll forget by tomorrow. That function you wrote yesterday? Crystal clear. The one from today? Still makes sense. But come back in a week and you'll be staring at your own creation like Gandalf in unfamiliar territory. The dark magic of undocumented code strikes again.