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Ignore The Bugs

Ignore The Bugs
BEHOLD! The majestic art of software development in its purest form! This traffic light is LITERALLY hanging on by a thread but still bravely showing that red light like it's its ONLY purpose in life. ๐Ÿ’… This is EXACTLY what happens when your PM says "ship it anyway" and you're left with code that's one gust of wind away from total catastrophe. The traffic light DOESN'T CARE that it's dangling precariously - it has ONE JOB and by the gods of technical debt, it's doing it! Minimum viable product at its finest, darling! Who needs proper implementation when the core functionality works?! *dramatic hair flip*

No Harm Done

No Harm Done
The eternal developer dilemma: ship it broken or fix it properly? The left panel shows the guilt of knowing you've written garbage code. The right panel is that sweet rationalization that kicks in โ€“ "It's fine, that feature's buried so deep in the settings menu even QA probably didn't test it." We've all been there. That quick fix at 4:55 PM on Friday that you KNOW will come back to haunt you in six months when someone actually discovers that page. But hey, what's the worst that could happen? (Narrator: The worst did, in fact, happen.)

They're The Same Picture

They're The Same Picture
Compiler warnings? What compiler warnings? The code runs, doesn't it? That's the unspoken mantra of developers pushing to production. The painful truth is that most of us treat "0 errors : 5678 warnings" exactly the same as "0 errors : 0 warnings" โ€” ship it and let future-you deal with the technical debt! Why fix what technically isn't broken? The compiler is clearly being dramatic.