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Just Make It Exist First, Automate The Horror Later

9 days ago 92.8K views 0 shares

The two horsemen of software development: hardcoding endless if-statements for every possible value (top) versus generating those same if-statements with a script that alternates between True and False (bottom). That moment when you realize you can write code to write your terrible code for you. Work smarter not harder! Technical debt can now be automated at scale!

Comment Slasher: The Horror Movie Of Your Codebase

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11 days ago 157.0K views 0 shares

Comment Slasher: The Horror Movie Of Your Codebase

The AUDACITY of proper multi-line comments when single-line comment spam exists! 💅 Who has time for /* */ when you can just absolutely ASSAULT your code with a barrage of // slashes like you're trying to murder your future self's sanity? Nothing says "I'm a chaotic evil developer" quite like turning your codebase into a slash fiction novel. Single-line comment gang RISE UP! ✊

The Tuxedo Ternary Transformation

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11 days ago 171.0K views 0 shares

OMG, the AUDACITY of developers who think they're sooooo clever turning a perfectly respectable if-else statement into that one-liner ternary abomination! 💅 Look at Fancy Pooh in his tuxedo thinking he's ROYALTY because he saved three whole lines of code! Meanwhile, the rest of us peasants have to decipher your "elegant" syntax during code reviews. I'm literally DYING at how we all pretend this makes us sophisticated when we're just trying to impress each other with code golf! 🙄

The Sacred Art Of Code Acquisition

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20 days ago 107.2K views 0 shares

The secret sauce behind "beautiful code" is often just a well-executed Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V maneuver from Stack Overflow! That smug smile says it all—the pride of passing off someone else's elegant solution as your own creation. The modern programmer's workflow isn't complete without the sacred ritual of finding that perfect snippet and claiming intellectual ownership while silently thanking the coding gods who posted it. Remember, good programmers write good code, but great programmers know exactly what to steal!

Entire Source Code In A File

AI Programming StackOverflow Debugging

1 month ago 166.8K views 2 shares

When your code is so broken that even Stack Overflow can't help, just dump the entire codebase into an AI and pray. Because nothing says "professional developer" like outsourcing your debugging to a chatbot that will happily refactor your spaghetti code into slightly more organized spaghetti code. The modern equivalent of "have you tried turning it off and on again?" is now "have you tried asking an AI to fix it?" Next up: submitting your entire Git repo as a prompt.

The Best Few Lines Of Code I've Seen For A While

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1 month ago 155.2K views 0 shares

The Best Few Lines Of Code I've Seen For A While

BEHOLD! The most exquisite example of "it's not a bug, it's a feature" I've ever witnessed in my ENTIRE LIFE! 😂 This magnificent function claims to validate emails but actually does NOTHING of the sort! If it can't validate? Just assume it's valid! If the filter function doesn't exist? VALID! The ultimate "this is fine" meme in code form. Somewhere, a security expert is having heart palpitations while a project manager is celebrating how quickly this ticket was closed. Pure. Evil. Genius.

Coding Assistants Are Just Casinos For Programmers

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1 month ago 118.2K views 0 shares

Coding Assistants Are Just Casinos For Programmers

OH. MY. GOD. The BRUTAL truth about our toxic relationship with AI coding assistants! 💅 We're literally gambling our productivity away with these AI slot machines! Type a vague prompt, hit "Generate" and PRAY TO THE CODING GODS that you'll get something that doesn't make your compiler have an existential crisis! "Just one more prompt, I swear this will fix it!" - me, 47 prompts later, sobbing into my energy drink while my deadline approaches at the speed of light. Meanwhile, OpenAI is cackling all the way to the bank! The absolute AUDACITY of spending 3 hours prompting for something that would take 20 minutes to code yourself. But here we are, calling ourselves "prompt engineers" like we've invented a new profession instead of admitting we're just gambling addicts in developer hoodies! 💁‍♀️

The Art Of Comment Chaos

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2 months ago 141.0K views 0 shares

When given the choice between proper multi-line comments /* */ and just spamming single-line comments // // // // , developers consistently choose chaos. It's not laziness—it's a lifestyle choice. The satisfaction of hammering that forward slash twice is just too powerful to resist. Plus, who needs structure when you can create a beautiful staircase of comment slashes that perfectly represents your declining code quality?

If You Are Given Option To Avoid Debugging

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3 months ago 100.9K views 0 shares

If You Are Given Option To Avoid Debugging

When faced with a choice between proper debugging tools and littering your code with print statements, the red button wins every time. It's like choosing between a surgical scalpel and a sledgehammer for brain surgery, yet somehow we all default to the sledgehammer. The dopamine hit from seeing console.log("made it here") is just too powerful to resist. Sure, debuggers exist, but why use sophisticated tools when you can turn your terminal into an unreadable wall of text?

At Least It Compiles

Programming Devops Debugging Testing

3 months ago 93.1K views 0 shares

The yellow character is panicking about compiler warnings while the green character, clearly a senior dev who's seen it all, just slaps a flower emoji on it. It's the programming equivalent of putting a decorative band-aid on a broken leg. Sure, the code compiles, but those 43 warnings are just sitting there... menacingly . This is basically what happens when the deadline trumps code quality. "Ship it now, fix it never" as the ancient developer proverb goes.

The Type Safety Shortcut

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3 months ago 131.9K views 0 shares

When TypeScript sees an untyped variable, it throws a fit like your strict high school teacher. But the second you slap type:any on it? Suddenly TS is your best friend who "doesn't see a problem here." It's the programming equivalent of telling your compiler "just trust me bro" while silently sacrificing all the type safety you installed TypeScript for in the first place. The digital walk of shame every developer knows but won't admit to doing.

Deport All Foreign Keys

Databases Programming StackOverflow Backend

4 months ago 120.0K views 0 shares

Why actually learn SQL when you can just insult everyone else's intelligence instead? The classic developer shortcut: when in doubt, blame others! Nothing says "I'm totally competent" like calling database experts names while secretly Googling "what is a JOIN statement" for the fifth time today. The true mark of a 10x developer is their ability to deflect, not their ability to query.

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