Simplicity Memes

The bell curve of developer intelligence strikes again! On both ends of the IQ spectrum, you've got the enlightened ones chanting "Everything is CRUD" with peaceful smiles. Meanwhile, the poor souls in the middle are sweating bullets about "complex architectures and states" while their hair falls out. It's the perfect representation of how programming wisdom comes full circle. Beginners think everything is just Create, Read, Update, Delete. Then you "evolve" into overengineering everything with state machines and microservices. Finally, after years of maintenance hell, you reach nirvana: "Wait, this all could've been a simple CRUD app." The true galaxy brains know that 90% of software is just moving data around in fancy costumes.

The bell curve of developer intelligence strikes again. The 55 IQ junior dev thinks everything is just CRUD because they've only built simple apps. The 145 IQ senior architect also thinks everything is CRUD because after years of overengineering, they've realized most problems boil down to "create, read, update, delete" with fancy clothes on. Meanwhile, the 100 IQ mid-level developer is sweating about "complex architectures and states" because they're just experienced enough to know how complicated things can get, but not wise enough to see the underlying simplicity. The circle of developer life.

The bell curve of programming wisdom strikes again! The average devs (34% on each side) are busy crying about "proper" type usage, screaming that you absolutely MUST use unsigned integers for positive values. Meanwhile, both the beginners (left) and the enlightened masters (right) just use regular integers for everything and get on with their lives. Why waste precious brain cycles on unsigned vs signed when you could be solving actual problems? Type purists will spend 3 hours arguing about uint8 vs int8 while the rest of us shipped the feature and went home early. The circle of programming life is complete when you realize simplicity beats pedantry every time.

The eternal battle between junior and senior developers in one perfect frame. On the left, the panicked junior screaming about needing Redis for everything because they heard it's fast. On the right, the battle-hardened senior silently judging with that thousand-yard stare while implementing a simple Dictionary as cache. The beauty is in the simplicity—why spin up an entire Redis instance when a basic in-memory data structure will do? It's like bringing a tactical nuke to a pillow fight. The senior's face just screams "I've survived five framework rewrites and three CTOs who discovered microservices... your Redis enthusiasm doesn't impress me."

Developers staring at a bottle labeled "Hard to swallow pills" while refusing to accept that good software is often boring and technologically uninteresting. We'd rather build overcomplicated monstrosities with seventeen microservices and blockchain integration than admit the best solution might be a simple CRUD app with proper documentation. The real 10x engineer is the one who picks the boring, reliable solution and goes home at 5pm.