Self-deprecation Memes

The duality of creative professions in its purest form. Artists? Self-deprecating puddles of insecurity who reject compliments faster than a production server rejects my untested PR. Meanwhile, programmers have evolved beyond the need for validation. We've transcended to a higher plane where we can look at our own garbage code, acknowledge it's absolute trash, and bond over our shared incompetence. Nothing builds camaraderie like two senior devs looking at a legacy codebase and mutually agreeing it's a dumpster fire. That's not imposter syndrome—that's just Tuesday morning standup.

The stark contrast between how artists and programmers interact is painfully accurate. Artists dance around with false modesty while programmers just openly roast each other's code and nod in agreement. Nothing builds camaraderie in tech quite like mutual acknowledgment that your codebase is a dumpster fire. It's not self-deprecation if it's objectively true. The real programming interview question should be "how comfortable are you with someone calling your life's work 'the worst f***ing code they've ever seen' and you just replying 'yep, sounds about right'?"