Programmer empathy Memes

Ah yes, the classic programmer evolution: from "this game is broken!" to "I understand why this game is broken and would probably make the same mistakes myself." Once you've spent hours debugging your own code only to find a missing semicolon, you develop this weird Stockholm syndrome with bugs. You don't complain anymore because you're too busy having flashbacks to your own coding nightmares. It's not forgiveness—it's trauma-based empathy.