Programming expectations Memes

The fantasy vs. reality of coding in its purest form. Left side: dreaming up your revolutionary app with unicorns and rainbows. "This will change everything! I'll be done by lunch!" Right side: sobbing quietly while debugging a semicolon that took 3 hours to find. The crushing realization that your "simple project" now requires learning 17 new frameworks and selling your soul to StackOverflow. The gap between imagination and implementation is where dreams go to die and coffee consumption reaches clinical concern levels.