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Grok Why Does It Not Print Question Mark

9 days ago 69.4K views 0 shares

That Perl one-liner isn't printing a question mark—it's printing a terrifying ASCII face ! The code is a masterpiece of obfuscation that renders as ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ when executed. Meanwhile, Grok AI is completely failing at answering basic questions, showing "Something went wrong" errors. The bottom panel perfectly captures the two types of developers: the blissfully ignorant ones who just see random symbols, and the traumatized veterans who recognize the unholy Perl regex incantation and know exactly what eldritch horrors lurk in that command. The Russian text asking "It doesn't print. Why?" is just the cherry on top of this chaos sundae!

What Is My Purpose

AI Devops Programming Testing

10 days ago 63.0K views 0 shares

This meme perfectly captures the existential dread of GitHub Copilot realizing its true purpose in life. First panel: Innocent AI assistant asks about its purpose in the universe. Second panel: "Writing unit tests and regex." The most soul-crushing tasks that even senior devs try to pawn off on interns. Final panel: The AI's hopes and dreams shattered as it realizes it was created to handle the coding equivalent of TPS reports. Welcome to software development, little buddy. We've all been writing regex at 2 AM wondering where our lives went wrong.

Only Thing It Kinda Gets Right

AI Programming Backend

11 days ago 80.3K views 0 shares

The existential crisis of our AI overlords! That robot's having a "what am I doing with my life" moment until someone tells it to generate regex, schemas, and config files - the digital equivalent of TPS reports. The poor thing realizes it went through all that neural training just to become a glorified YAML generator. Six months of training on all human knowledge just to be told "hey, can you make me a JSON schema for my API?" Talk about career disappointment. The robot equivalent of getting a PhD and then being asked to make coffee runs.

I Bought AgentPorn.Ai And It's Not What You Think

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11 days ago 101.8K views 0 shares

I Bought AgentPorn.Ai And It's Not What You Think

OH. MY. GOD. This is the filthiest thing I've seen since someone used tabs instead of spaces! 💅 AgentPorn.ai isn't your average sketchy website - it's a DEVELOPER'S GUILTY PLEASURE with categories that make me CLUTCH MY PEARLS! "Zero Downtime"? "Wet Deployments"?? "BARELY LEGAL REGEX"??? 😱 The way they've turned mundane development tasks into suggestive clickbait is SENDING ME! And that "NSFW: Not Safe For Waterfall" warning? Honey, Agile developers are LIVING for this drama! The build success with "420/420" tests passed? That's not just code, that's a LIFESTYLE CHOICE! This is basically developer thirst traps but for people who get excited about CI/CD pipelines and perfect uptime metrics. I'm simultaneously horrified and bookmarking it.

Regex Wizards: The True Fools Of Programming

Programming Algorithms Debugging Testing

14 days ago 77.7K views 0 shares

Regex Wizards: The True Fools Of Programming

Oh honey, you think you're a coding genius with your regex masterpiece? PLEASE! You've just created the programming equivalent of ancient hieroglyphics that even archaeologists would give up on! 💅 That beautiful Martin Fowler quote is SCREAMING at all you regex wizards who craft these incomprehensible one-liners that make future developers contemplate career changes. Sure, your computer understands it. Your colleagues? They're quietly plotting your demise while drowning in regex documentation.

Do You Find Regex Hard?

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15 days ago 95.2K views 0 shares

Asking regex to be normal is like asking a cat to fetch your mail. The screaming response of incomprehensible symbols is exactly what happens when you're desperately trying to validate an email address at 2AM while your deadline looms. That chaotic string of brackets, backslashes, and special characters isn't just regex being difficult—it's regex being its authentic self. And honestly, would we even recognize it if it made sense? The true developer rite of passage is writing a regex pattern, forgetting what it does, then being too afraid to modify it when it somehow works.

Human Regex Parser

Programming Algorithms Debugging

15 days ago 70.7K views 0 shares

Looking at hieroglyphics and thinking "this seems more intuitive than regex" is the most developer thing ever. Eight years into coding and I still have to pull up a cheat sheet every time I need to match anything more complex than an email address. And even then, I'm just copying someone else's pattern that probably has three edge cases I'll discover in production.

Real 10X Engineer

Programming StackOverflow Debugging Backend

16 days ago 77.8K views 0 shares

Oh. My. GOD. The AUDACITY of this regex wizard! 🧙‍♂️ Writing regex without Googling is basically the programming equivalent of performing open-heart surgery blindfolded while riding a unicycle across Niagara Falls! Even the prison guard is SHOOK to his core! This isn't just a 10X engineer—this is a PSYCHOPATH with supernatural powers who probably also remembers all their passwords and doesn't cry when merging conflicts. The rest of us mortals are over here frantically copy-pasting from Stack Overflow like it's oxygen, and this mad genius is out here FREESTYLE REGEX-ING?! I need to lie down.

What Are You In For?

Programming Webdev StackOverflow Debugging

18 days ago 62.8K views 1 shares

Prison scene: two inmates chatting. The smaller one confesses, "I wrote a regex without Googling." The muscular inmate's reaction? Pure shock: "DUDE. WTF?!" Writing regex from memory is basically the developer equivalent of claiming you can disarm a nuclear bomb blindfolded. Even senior devs with 20 years of experience still copy-paste that email validation pattern. The confidence required to manually craft those cryptic `/^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$/` monstrosities without Stack Overflow backup? Absolutely terrifying.

Day 1 Or Year 10: Still Googling Regex

Programming Webdev Javascript StackOverflow Debugging

20 days ago 95.8K views 0 shares

The eternal truth of coding careers: whether it's your first day or your ten-year anniversary, you're still frantically Googling regex patterns for email validation. Some things never change—your impostor syndrome just gets better at hiding. The real senior developer achievement isn't memorizing regex—it's knowing exactly which Stack Overflow answer to copy-paste without reading the comments warning you about edge cases. That's called efficiency.

Cannot Happen Soon Enough

AI Algorithms Programming Debugging

24 days ago 77.5K views 0 shares

Standing in a field waiting for AI to replace developers who can't handle regex? Might be a while. Regular expressions aren't actually hard—they're just a precise language for pattern matching that follows logical rules. The real challenge is remembering to escape your backslashes twice and not writing patterns so complex that future-you sends death threats to past-you. Meanwhile, AI still struggles with "select all images with traffic lights," so maybe learn regex instead of waiting for the robot uprising.

Definitely Not All Cases

Programming Javascript Python Java StackOverflow

24 days ago 132.6K views 0 shares

The moment someone claims their regex handles "all edge cases perfectly" is when experienced developers reach for the doubt button faster than they reach for coffee on Monday morning. That innocent little pattern is probably hiding six different ways to break your production server when someone inputs an emoji, a null byte, or—heaven forbid—actual human language with accents. The confidence of regex authors is inversely proportional to the number of Stack Overflow tabs they'll need open tomorrow.

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