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What Do I Like As A Developer

What Do I Like As A Developer
You know you've made it in this industry when you realize the real joy isn't solving problems—it's creating them. Writing code? That's just work. But shipping bugs straight to production with confidence? That's art. That's living dangerously. That's the rush of knowing your phone might ring at 2 AM because the payment system is down, and secretly loving the chaos you've unleashed upon the world. Every senior dev has been there: you stop caring about clean code and start caring about job security. Nothing says "I'm irreplaceable" quite like being the only person who understands why the system works (or doesn't). It's the ultimate power move—become the chaos, embrace the chaos, be the chaos.

I Don't Think This Should Be In Prod

I Don't Think This Should Be In Prod
Nothing says "we ship fast" quite like a production payment page displaying "TODO UPDATE MAPPING" as your credit card details. Someone definitely merged that PR on a Friday afternoon and peaced out for the weekend. The best part? It's on Hulu's secure checkout page. You know, where people enter their actual payment information. That TODO comment has probably been sitting in the codebase since 2019, survived multiple code reviews, passed all the tests (because who writes tests for display text?), and made it all the way to production where it's now charging real customers real money. This is what happens when your CI/CD pipeline is too good at its job. Deploy early, deploy often, deploy your TODO comments directly to paying customers.

Well Well Well

Well Well Well
You know that smug feeling when you tell the team "we don't have time for tests, we'll write them later"? Yeah, later just arrived. Production's on fire, users are screaming, and you're staring at a bug that would've taken 30 seconds to catch with a basic unit test. But hey, you saved what, 10 minutes? Now you get to spend 3 hours debugging at 2 AM on a Friday while your manager CC's the entire engineering org on the incident report. The consequences-of-my-own-actions pipeline is now in full deployment mode. Fun fact: Studies show that fixing bugs in production costs 10-100x more than catching them during development. But sure, skip those tests. What could possibly go wrong?

Lol, Me As A Developer

Lol, Me As A Developer
Companies love saying they want "honest developers" during interviews, but the second you admit there's no animation for swimming in production because nobody had time to implement it, suddenly you're not a "team player." The brutal honesty of telling stakeholders that features literally don't exist yet? That's career suicide dressed up as transparency. You'll just stand there staring at the water, knowing full well you can't dive in because the sprint ended two weeks ago and swimming got pushed to the backlog. Honesty in development means admitting half the features are held together with duct tape and prayers, but HR didn't mention that in the job posting.

One Of The Most Favorite

One Of The Most Favorite
Classic QA engineer joke that never gets old because it's painfully accurate. We test for zero beers, integer overflow, negative values, random gibberish input—basically everything except "where's the bathroom?" because that's what actual users do. They don't follow your happy path; they ask questions your system wasn't designed to answer and suddenly your entire architecture is on fire. The real tragedy? QA finds 47 edge cases, you fix them all, feel like a hero, then production explodes because someone tried to use the app while their phone was upside down during a leap year. You can't win. The users will always find that one scenario you never imagined, and it'll be the dumbest thing you've ever heard, yet completely valid.

Why Playtesting Is Important

Why Playtesting Is Important
Developer proudly ships their shiny new chat feature for the multiplayer game. First player to test it in production? Immediately weaponizes it by pasting the entire Bee Movie script into the chat, causing a catastrophic game freeze for everyone in the lobby. Classic case of not stress-testing input validation. The dev probably thought "nobody would paste that much text into a chat box, right?" Wrong. Players will always find the most creative ways to break your stuff. No character limit? That's an invitation. No rate limiting? Challenge accepted. No input sanitization? Say hello to the entire works of Shakespeare. The ":D" at the end really captures the chaotic energy of someone who just discovered they can DoS an entire game lobby with copypasta. Quality assurance? Never heard of her.

The Developer's Eternal Dilemma

The Developer's Eternal Dilemma
The eternal developer hamster wheel, featuring sad Pepe as our protagonist. Try AI coding, get buggy production crashes. Fall back to manual coding, trigger impatient manager. Repeat until retirement or mental breakdown, whichever comes first. The modern tech cycle isn't about finding solutions—it's about choosing which problem you prefer having today.

Pick The Right One

Pick The Right One
Left side: a comfortable office chair for writing code. Right side: a toilet for the inevitable existential crisis when your code inexplicably breaks in production. The debugging throne isn't ergonomic, but it does provide the necessary time and isolation for contemplating your life choices. Most senior developers have their best debugging epiphanies there, usually right after muttering "What the actual f—" for the fifth time.

The AI Enthusiasm Gap

The AI Enthusiasm Gap
The eternal battle between enthusiasm and experience. Junior devs excitedly promoting AI-generated code like it's the second coming of programming Jesus, while senior devs stare back with the thousand-yard gaze of someone who's spent years cleaning up "quick solutions." That silent stare says everything: "Sure, your AI wrote it in 5 seconds... and I'll spend 5 days figuring out why it breaks in production while you're happily generating more technical debt." The cycle of software development continues, just with fancier tools to create the same old problems.

Release On Friday Device

Release On Friday Device
What's marketed as a "500 Cigarettes Adapter" is actually the perfect visualization of what happens when you push code to production on Friday. You'll need every single one of those cigarettes to cope with the weekend support calls and Slack notifications while your manager is unreachable at some beach. The stress level goes from "I'm just gonna make this tiny change" to "I need industrial-grade nicotine delivery" in about 3.5 seconds after hitting deploy. Pro tip: if your deployment script includes ordering takeout and canceling weekend plans, you might be doing it wrong.

Sweet Production Chaos (That's Not My Problem)

Sweet Production Chaos (That's Not My Problem)
That delicious moment when production is literally BURNING TO THE GROUND with a bug, but you're sitting there with the smuggest face because it's not your code! 💅 First panel: concerned thinking. Second panel: desperately trying not to burst into maniacal laughter while your colleagues run around screaming. The absolute AUDACITY of feeling both relief and schadenfreude while someone else's code implodes is the purest form of developer joy. We're all terrible people and I'm not even sorry about it!

SQL Time Is Always Wrong Time

SQL Time Is Always Wrong Time
What happens when a DBA designs a clock? You get Roman numerals in completely random order because SQL queries without proper constraints do whatever they want. Notice how IX (9) is where 4 should be, and V (5) is at 6 o'clock. The comment "It Will Work This Time" is the eternal lie every developer tells themselves before running untested SQL in production. Spoiler: it never does.