Specification Memes

When you ask for "McDouble, only ketchup" and get a sad bun with just ketchup because the fast food worker parsed your request like a poorly written function parameter. Classic case of ambiguous syntax in human-to-human interfaces. Should've used proper operator precedence: (McDouble) && (only ketchup) instead of McDouble && (only ketchup) . The compiler at McDonald's took the literal interpretation.

Oh, the eternal job security of dealing with clients who say they want a "simple website" but actually mean "Facebook but better" with a budget of $200. The AI apocalypse might be coming for some jobs, but programmers can sleep soundly knowing that no robot will ever decipher "make it pop" or "I'll know what I want when I see it." Our superpower isn't coding—it's somehow building functional software from requirements that change faster than JavaScript frameworks.