Reinventing the wheel Memes

The corporate mantra that haunts every developer's nightmares. Some exec heard "dependencies are risky" once at a golf course and suddenly your team is reinventing perfectly good wheels because "we need to own the libs." Meanwhile, the same company will happily outsource their entire infrastructure to AWS without blinking. The irony burns hotter than my CPU after running npm install.

The asylum of programming sins is now accepting new patients! Left to right, we have the poor soul who thought regex was a sensible XML parsing solution (narrator: it wasn't), the delusional dev who reinvented the wheel with a custom date/time library (because clearly, humanity hasn't solved that problem in the last 50 years), and finally—the pièce de résistance—the screaming maniac who blindly copy-pasted AI-generated "fixes" straight into production. The padded walls of this code asylum are the only things keeping these developers from harming themselves or others with more terrible technical decisions.