Software aging Memes

The smile-to-despair pipeline that hits when your "model" girlfriend isn't the runway type, but a data model in your codebase. In 2020, you're smugly telling everyone about your model girlfriend. By 2026, you've spent six years maintaining that legacy model class with 47 properties, 23 inheritance levels, and enough technical debt to crash the economy. Nothing ages a developer like watching your beautiful abstraction turn into a horrifying monolith that nobody wants to touch but everyone depends on.