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Transmit Data Into My Brain

3 days ago 200.9K views 0 shares

Documentation: *exists* Developers in 2023 still trying to absorb technical knowledge like it's The Matrix. Those jumper cables aren't going to help you understand that 500-page API reference any faster. Just another day of hoping the knowledge will somehow bypass the reading part and directly upload to your brain. Spoiler alert: the only thing getting fried here is your dignity.

RTFM: The Forbidden Technique

Debugging Webdev Programming StackOverflow Testing

17 days ago 205.9K views 2 shares

The eternal developer struggle: spending four hours trying to force a flip-flop through a sock when you could've just spent five minutes reading the manual. The documentation is right there, beckoning with its sweet knowledge, but no—we'd rather perform sock contortionism while muttering "this should work" for the 47th time. And then have the audacity to complain that the library is "poorly designed" when our sock-sandal monstrosity inevitably fails. The real tragedy? We'll do it again tomorrow.

Signs Of Sociopathy

StackOverflow AI Programming Debugging

19 days ago 166.2K views 0 shares

The evolutionary scale of debugging techniques laid bare! At the top, we have the panicked screaming of devs using StackOverflow and ChatGPT - frantically searching for someone else who's encountered their exact error message. But then there's that rare specimen - the dev who calmly reads official documentation to solve problems. The absolute madlad sitting there with a smug grin, methodically understanding the system instead of copy-pasting random solutions. It's like finding a unicorn in the wild. Who actually reads the manual? Next you'll tell me they write comprehensive comments and follow naming conventions too!

The Documentation Rejection Saga

Programming Devops Debugging

1 month ago 133.8K views 0 shares

The eternal struggle between documentation and developers. Rey desperately offers "the docs" while Luke Skywalker, representing the average developer, stands on his cliff dramatically gesturing "no thanks." Because why read instructions when you can spend 6 hours implementing a solution that already exists in paragraph 2 of the README?

The AI Prompt Inception Circus

AI Programming Debugging

2 months ago 195.4K views 0 shares

The modern developer's descent into madness: First, we try ChatGPT because who has time to actually solve problems? When that fails, we panic and throw Perplexity at it because clearly we need a different AI. Still stuck? Obviously our prompt game is weak! Let's use Claude to generate a better prompt for ChatGPT. And the final evolutionary stage: using ChatGPT to generate a Perplexity prompt that generates a ChatGPT prompt. Meanwhile, the documentation sits there, unread, silently judging our AI-prompt-inception circus. The clown makeup is just our career progression visualized.

Proceeds To Open ChatGPT

Programming AI Webdev StackOverflow Debugging

2 months ago 164.9K views 0 shares

Documentation: *exists* Developers: *immediately pull out the "I-don't-care-inator"* Let's be honest—reading documentation is like flossing. We all know we should do it, but somehow we'd rather blast it into oblivion and ask ChatGPT to explain that obscure method in five words or less. Ten years of experience has taught me that the time saved skipping docs is always paid back with interest during 3 AM debugging sessions. Yet here we are, finger hovering over the ChatGPT tab, ready to type "how to center a div" for the 500th time.

The Children Are Our Downfall

AI Webdev Programming Debugging Frontend

3 months ago 230.9K views 0 shares

Junior developers turning their heads away from perfectly good documentation and help resources to stare longingly at the siren call of ChatGPT with half-baked prompts. The eternal struggle of tech leads everywhere - watching their team ignore centuries of accumulated wisdom in favor of asking an AI "how 2 center div plz?" and then implementing whatever hallucinated garbage it spits out. The documentation might as well be written in invisible ink at this point.

The Documentation Paradox

Debugging Programming Testing

3 months ago 96.3K views 0 shares

The eternal developer paradox: spending an entire workday wrestling with broken code rather than taking five minutes to read the manual. It's not stubbornness—it's an investment strategy. Why solve a problem in minutes when you can turn it into a character-building experience that consumes your entire Tuesday? Documentation exists solely as a last resort, to be consulted only after exhausting all possible incorrect approaches first.

Have You Tried Turning It Off [REDACTED]?

Security Networking Programming Debugging

3 months ago 163.0K views 0 shares

Have You Tried Turning It Off [REDACTED]?

The cybersecurity version of tech support's favorite question! While normal IT folks ask if you've tried turning it off and on again, security professionals have to redact that advice because... well, turning things off might actually be a valid security measure. Nothing fixes vulnerabilities quite like complete isolation from the network! The guy's RTFM shirt is just the cherry on top – because in security, nobody ever reads the manual until after the breach has happened. Classic "I told you so" fashion.

The Documentation Disappointment

Debugging Webdev Programming StackOverflow

4 months ago 119.0K views 0 shares

The eternal promise of documentation vs. the crushing reality. You spend hours debugging some obscure error, finally surrender your ego and check the docs, only to find such helpful gems as "returns a value if successful" or my personal favorite: "this function does what it's supposed to do." Thanks for nothing. The only thing more useless than bad documentation is the mandatory team-building exercise where Dave from accounting tells us about his weekend kayaking trip.

RTFM: The Lost Art Of Reading Documentation

StackOverflow Programming Debugging

4 months ago 125.4K views 0 shares

RTFM: The Lost Art Of Reading Documentation

The revolutionary concept of actually reading documentation before asking for help. What sorcery is this? The distinguished frog gentleman represents that rare developer who took five minutes to check the docs instead of immediately posting "halp pls" on Stack Overflow with zero context. For those uninitiated, RTFM stands for "Read The F***ing Manual" - the ancient incantation senior devs whisper when juniors ask questions answered in paragraph one of the documentation.

Have You Tried Turning It Off And On Again?

Debugging Programming