react Memes

The modern dev industry in one horrifying portrait. This poor soul has spent 15 years installing packages and memorizing framework APIs without understanding a single line of vanilla code underneath. Can't write a for loop without reaching for lodash, but boy can they recite the entire React documentation while sleeping. I've interviewed these people. They'll talk your ear off about their "deep expertise" in 47 frameworks they've "mastered," but ask them to reverse a string without npm and suddenly they need to "research best practices." Their resume is just a word cloud of package names. The worst part? These people get hired. A lot. Because nobody wants to admit they can't tell the difference between someone who understands programming and someone who's just really good at following Medium tutorials.

Someone asked ChatGPT about JavaScript's export default App; syntax and got the most refreshingly honest AI response ever: "I honestly have no idea." Finally, an AI that admits defeat instead of confidently hallucinating some nonsensical explanation about React components! If only my junior devs had this level of self-awareness instead of copy-pasting Stack Overflow answers they don't understand. The robots might replace us, but at least they'll be upfront about their limitations.

Ever had that fever dream where you're a web developer? The meme perfectly captures what would happen if programmers suddenly woke up as primates in some alternate universe. Your monkey friends would be like "This guy's babbling about JavaScript and React while we're just trying to forage for lunch." It's basically the reverse "Planet of the Apes" scenario - instead of evolving, you've devolved but kept all your coding trauma. Meanwhile, your new chimp buddies are living their best lives without ever experiencing the horror of dependency hell or that one bug that only appears in production.