Overengineering Memes

Me Making A Custom Game Engine Instead Of Just Working On My Game

1 day ago 104.0K views 0 shares

The eternal battle between pragmatism and the programmer's ego. When someone says "just use an existing engine," what they're really saying is "please don't spend the next 18 months building a half-broken physics system when Unity exists." But here we are, drawing our own circle from scratch because clearly no one in history has ever implemented collision detection correctly. It's like deciding to forge your own kitchen knife when you just wanted to make a sandwich. "But MY knife will have a slightly different handle grip!" Cool story. Meanwhile your game idea is collecting dust, and you're debugging quaternion math at 3AM.

Full Rewrite Justification

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2 days ago 108.5K views 0 shares

When you discover that fixing a tiny bug means jumping through an obstacle course of spaghetti code, dependency hell, and technical debt... suddenly a complete rewrite seems like the only rational option! It's like trying to remove one Jenga piece but realizing the entire tower is held together by hopes, prayers, and that one intern's commented-out code from 2017. The "Parkour!" reference perfectly captures that mental gymnastics of justifying why touching this cursed codebase any further would be professional malpractice.

Just Plugging AI Into Production What Could Go Wrong

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3 days ago 179.9K views 0 shares

Just Plugging AI Into Production What Could Go Wrong

The meme shows our entire digital infrastructure as this massive, complex, precarious tower of blocks—decades of legacy systems, patches, and workarounds stacked on top of each other. And what's our brilliant solution? Just aim a tiny slingshot labeled "AI" at it and hope for the best. This perfectly captures what happens when executives read one article about ChatGPT and decide we need to "transform the business with AI" by next quarter. Sure, let's just fling some machine learning at our Jenga tower of technical debt—what could possibly go wrong?

When The Plumber Becomes A PC Builder

Hardware

4 days ago 86.4K views 0 shares

Someone took the term "liquid cooling" way too literally and built a steampunk plumber's nightmare inside their PC. Those copper pipes aren't just for show—they're actually routing coolant through the system like some Victorian-era engineer got drunk and decided to fix their overheating problem. The craftsmanship is undeniable, but imagine explaining to your IT department why your computer smells like a leaky radiator. This is what happens when you tell a hardware enthusiast "just use a fan" and they take it as a personal challenge.

David vs Goliath: Modern Infrastructure Edition

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4 days ago 155.1K views 0 shares

David vs Goliath: Modern Infrastructure Edition

Oh. My. God. The AUDACITY of this meme! 😂 On the left, we have this MASSIVE, TOWERING stack of technology representing "ALL MODERN DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE" - decades of engineering, millions of developer hours, and countless Stack Overflow visits. And then on the right? Just a pathetic little slingshot labeled "AI" that's somehow supposed to revolutionize everything! It's like bringing a rubber duck to a nuclear war! The tech industry has spent YEARS building this elaborate Jenga tower of code, and now everyone's like "but have you tried this pebble-shooting stick instead?" PLEASE! The contrast between the grandiose infrastructure and the primitive AI tool is sending me into orbit! 💀

How The Rocks Turn

Cloud AI Security Devops Programming

8 days ago 154.3K views 0 shares

Behold, the precarious tower of modern tech! That tiny wedge labeled "AI" is the only thing preventing our entire digital infrastructure from collapsing like a Jenga tower at a caffeine addicts' convention. It's basically our entire civilization balanced on a glorified if-else statement. Sleep well tonight knowing your bank account, medical records, and embarrassing search history are all being held up by what's essentially a mathematical party trick with good PR.

I Don't Need AI In My Fridge

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8 days ago 134.8K views 0 shares

The entire tech industry right now is just a Jenga tower of random components with AI duct-taped to the side. Venture capitalists throwing money at anything with "AI-powered" in the pitch deck while engineers frantically try to keep the whole rickety structure from collapsing. Meanwhile, my toaster now needs a privacy policy and wants to know my location. Progress!

House Of Cards: Modern Digital Infrastructure

Cloud Devops Programming Linux Backend

8 days ago 131.3K views 0 shares

House Of Cards: Modern Digital Infrastructure

The billion-dollar tech industry vs. that one legacy system running on a Raspberry Pi in someone's basement. Our entire digital civilization is just elaborate block stacking with extra steps! Meanwhile, some senior engineer's weekend project from 2012 is silently keeping half the internet functioning. The duality of infrastructure: complex architectural masterpieces requiring teams of DevOps engineers alongside that janky script Dave wrote before he retired that nobody dares to touch.

The Great AI Hype Vs. Reality Check

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9 days ago 164.9K views 0 shares

The massive tower labeled "ALL MODERN DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE" vs. the tiny rectangle labeled "AI" pretty much sums up the current state of tech hype. Billions in VC funding for what's essentially a fancy pattern matcher running on infrastructure built over decades. Yet somehow AI is going to replace us all by Tuesday. Sure thing, buddy. I'll start worrying when it can configure a printer without having an existential crisis.

Engineered For Disappointment

Hardware Gamedev

10 days ago 101.1K views 0 shares

The PC building community's obsession with RGB lighting has reached its logical conclusion - putting rainbow lights on a power supply unit fan that literally no one will ever see . It's like wearing designer underwear to a swimming pool - technically impressive but fundamentally pointless. The RGB PSU joins other engineering marvels like the cup handle that blocks your fingers, a gate that guards absolutely nothing, and whatever that blue watering can abomination is supposed to be. At least when your code fails spectacularly, people can see it. This is just wasting electricity to illuminate the inside of a metal box.

The Tower Of Babel vs One Rusty Brick

Rust Devops Programming Backend Cloud

12 days ago 152.7K views 0 shares

The entire tech industry is building digital skyscrapers of complexity—microservices stacked on containers balanced on orchestration tools perched on virtualization—and then there's Rust, just chilling as a single, solid brick. It's like watching everyone bring an aircraft carrier to a knife fight while Rust shows up with a perfectly sharpened pocket knife. The irony is that tiny brick is probably holding up half the wobbly tower. Memory safety doesn't need a mansion, just competent architecture.

Fastest Way To Empty Your Wallet: The O(API) Sorting Algorithm

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14 days ago 204.8K views 1 shares

Fastest Way To Empty Your Wallet: The O(API) Sorting Algorithm

When your CS professor says "implement a sorting algorithm" but you've got an OpenAI API key and zero shame. This dev just created the world's most expensive sorting function by literally asking GPT-4 to be a sorting algorithm! Sure, it works—but imagine burning through API credits to sort [42, 3, 99, 7, 13] when a simple Array.sort() would do the trick. The true innovation here is maximizing both latency AND cost while solving a problem that was figured out decades ago. Congratulations, you've invented O(API) complexity—where the limiting factor is your credit card limit!

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