Product management Memes

Ah, the eternal developer mantra: "It works on my machine!" – the universal get-out-of-jail-free card that drives product managers to the brink of insanity. When your code is held together by duct tape, caffeine, and that specific arrangement of lucky rubber ducks on your desk, of course shipping the entire workstation seems like the only logical solution. Why bother with reproducible steps when you can just FedEx your entire development environment? The product manager's face is basically every non-technical person who's ever had to translate "it works on my machine" into actual customer support. Meanwhile, the reasonable developer on the right is that one team member who actually documents their code and doesn't rely on 47 undocumented environment variables to make their application run.

Same insect, different suit. The corporate transformation from "we screwed up" to "we meant to do that" is the oldest trick in software development. Just slap a business shirt on that bug, call it an "undocumented feature," and suddenly you're a visionary instead of someone who forgot to check their edge cases. The marketing department thanks you for your service.