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The hierarchy of care is brutally accurate here. Students barely register on the radar (literally playing dead), engineering colleges get some acknowledgment (arms up, moderately excited), but YouTube programming videos? That's where the real parenting energy goes. YouTube tutorials have basically raised an entire generation of developers who learned more from a 12-minute video titled "Learn React in 10 Minutes" than from a semester-long software engineering course. The irony is that most CS professors probably also learned their latest frameworks from YouTube anyway. Shoutout to the real MVPs: Indian developers with 47 subscribers who somehow explain dependency injection better than your $200 textbook ever could.

The eternal truth of coding education: beginners sit at the kids' table watching experienced devs explain complex concepts while some random Indian guy on YouTube teaches you how to actually build the damn thing in 10 minutes flat. No fancy bootcamp required—just a guy with an accent and a screen recorder saving your project at 2 AM.

EXCUSE ME WHILE I EXPOSE THE DARKEST SECRET OF THE DEVELOPER UNIVERSE! 💀 The absolute TRAGEDY of spending 72 hours on a Udemy course only to discover the certificate is just a fancy JPEG that nobody in the industry gives a flying function about! Yet there we are, watching 37 hours of "How to Master React in Just 3 Days" at 1.5x speed, DESPERATELY clinging to the promise of that digital participation trophy. The validation-seeking MONSTERS we've become! And for what? So we can add another meaningless credential to our LinkedIn profile that recruiters scroll past faster than terms and conditions?! THE HORROR!