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Only God Knows

Only God Knows
That magical moment when you write some unholy abomination of code at 3 AM that somehow works perfectly. Six months later, you return to fix a bug and stare at your own creation like it's written in hieroglyphics. The documentation? Non-existent. Comments? What comments? Just you, your past self's cryptic logic, and the crushing realization that you've become your own technical debt.

The Code Is The Documentation

The Code Is The Documentation
The eternal programmer's dilemma captured perfectly! On the left, we have the desperate developer frantically searching for documentation like Batman on a vengeance quest: "WHERE IS IT?!" Meanwhile, on the right is Bugs Bunny with that smug "NO" when it's their turn to write documentation. This is basically every codebase ever. We all want comprehensive docs when we're trying to understand someone else's cryptic code, but when it's time to document our own "perfectly self-explanatory" masterpiece? Suddenly we're too busy for such trivial matters. The hypocrisy is *chef's kiss*.

Docs

Docs
The eternal programmer's confession! Writing documentation is like going to the dentist—nobody wants to do it until the pain becomes unbearable. The only time most of us actually document our code is when we've written something so convoluted that even we can't decipher it two days later. It's basically leaving cryptic notes for our future selves who will inevitably curse our past selves. The circle of programming life!