Time management Memes

If Lincoln Was A Prompt Engineer

7 days ago 208.8K views 0 shares

Ah, the modern developer's time management philosophy! While Abraham Lincoln famously said he'd spend 6 hours sharpening an axe before cutting down a tree, today's devs spend 4 hours crafting the perfect AI prompt before writing any actual code. The joke brilliantly captures our current tech zeitgeist where "prompt engineering" has become its own discipline. We're no longer just coding—we're meticulously instructing AI to code for us, which somehow takes longer than coding ourselves. And let's appreciate the date stamp of 2025... when we'll apparently still be struggling with this balance. Some things never change!

Don't Tell My Boss

Programming Agile Debugging

15 days ago 83.1K views 0 shares

When your tech lead says "this should only take an hour" but you're still getting paid for the full seven. Suddenly, that impossible legacy codebase doesn't seem so bad when you're collecting a senior dev salary to stare at your IDE for 6 hours and 50 minutes after making one tiny commit. The sweet satisfaction of being overpaid for underdelivering - the true developer dream.

Roll Three D100 For Story Points

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27 days ago 172.8K views 0 shares

Task estimation in software development is basically just high-stakes gambling with your career. "Shouldn't take long" is the biggest lie in tech, right after "we value work-life balance." The range between "an hour and 11 months" perfectly captures that moment when you know the requirements are vague, the codebase is a nightmare, and three different managers are asking for status updates. Meanwhile, the product owner is already telling clients it'll be done by Friday. Pure fiction, just like those story points we assign in sprint planning.

The Automation Paradox

Programming Devops Bash Python

27 days ago 161.2K views 0 shares

The eternal developer dilemma: spend several hours automating a task that would take 5 minutes to do manually. Sure, the automation will save time... eventually... after the 84th run... in theory. But who's counting? Certainly not the developer crawling through the desert of inefficiency while ignoring the obvious oasis of just doing the damn thing.

Automation Saves Time (Eventually... Maybe... Never)

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1 month ago 202.0K views 0 shares

Automation Saves Time (Eventually... Maybe... Never)

The quintessential developer dilemma: spend 1 hour doing a boring task manually with a grimace on your face... OR spend 6 hours writing a script that doesn't even work, but somehow feels like the intellectually superior choice. The dopamine rush of potentially automating something is just too powerful to resist, even when the math clearly doesn't check out. It's like buying a $300 mechanical keyboard to improve your productivity by 0.02%.

What Todo With Your Unexpected Productivity

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1 month ago 153.4K views 0 shares

What Todo With Your Unexpected Productivity

The eternal developer dilemma: finish a project in 4 hours that management estimated would take 6 months. Do you reveal your wizardry and risk getting more work dumped on you? Or do you quietly sip coffee for the next 5 months while occasionally muttering "it's more complex than it looks"? This is why estimation meetings exist—so developers can pad timelines by 800% while managers nod knowingly. The remaining 19% of the project is just documentation no one will read anyway. Pro tip: Always save some trivial feature for the last week so you can heroically "finish early" without revealing you've been playing Minecraft for five months.

One More Bug: The 84-Year Debug Cycle

Debugging Programming Testing

1 month ago 165.1K views 0 shares

The infamous "just one more bug" lie that's haunted relationships since the first compiler error. Young dev you promises dinner at 7, but old dev you is still debugging the same issue at midnight... 84 years later. The only thing that ages faster than Rose from Titanic is your codebase when you say "this will be quick." That "one more bug" is like the final boss in a video game that keeps spawning minions. Fix one issue, three more appear – it's basically hydra-driven development.

Documentation Is For People Who Don't Believe In Themselves

Programming Devops Git Debugging

1 month ago 182.1K views 0 shares

Documentation Is For People Who Don't Believe In Themselves

The eternal developer paradox: spending four hours debugging when the solution was right there in the README all along. Nothing builds character like reinventing wheels at 2 AM while the documentation silently judges you from an unopened tab. The timestamp really sells it - clearly the wisdom that comes after you've already done it the hard way.

We Are Humans Too

Debugging Agile Programming Testing

1 month ago 220.3K views 2 shares

The eternal optimism of a programmer saying "I'll fix it in an hour" deserves your respect and silence, not your hourly check-ins. That bug they promised to squash? It's currently evolving into its final form while they're eight Stack Overflow tabs deep, questioning their career choices. Trust the process—or at least pretend to while they spiral through the five stages of debugging grief. The constant "Is it fixed yet?" messages just add psychological damage to their already fragile ego that's being crushed by a semicolon hiding somewhere in 3000 lines of code.

Vibe Gambling: When Prompt Engineering Meets Casino Logic

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1 month ago 234.8K views 2 shares

Vibe Gambling: When Prompt Engineering Meets Casino Logic

THE ABSOLUTE AUDACITY of comparing AI prompt engineering to gambling is SENDING ME! 💀 Both involve throwing money at a system you barely understand, desperately hoping for that magical outcome while the house (or cursor) laughs all the way to the bank. You're either wasting time tweaking slot strategies or perfecting prompts for a function that could've been written in 20 minutes. And that last row? DEVASTATING TRUTH. Nothing says "professional developer" like spending 4 hours crafting the perfect prompt only to realize you've just been playing the world's nerdiest slot machine. The difference? At least gamblers KNOW they're gambling!

The Classic Programmer Move

Programming Devops Bash Python

1 month ago 275.2K views 1 shares

Spending 10 days to automate a 10-minute task isn't a waste of time—it's an investment in your sanity. Sure, the math doesn't add up until you've run that script 144 times, but who's counting? The true victory is never having to do that mind-numbing task manually again. Plus, those 10 days weren't just coding—they included 9 days of procrastination, Stack Overflow deep dives, and telling everyone how you're "optimizing workflow." The smug satisfaction alone is worth the time deficit.

Useless Loop: Four Hours Of My Life Gone Forever

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2 months ago 224.3K views 0 shares

Useless Loop: Four Hours Of My Life Gone Forever

Ah, the classic "let me wait for this to finish" trap. The code imports the time module, sets runtime to 14400 (exactly 4 hours in seconds), then runs a loop that sleeps for 1 second... 14,400 times. The kicker? This could've been done with a single time.sleep(14400) . But no, some sadistic soul decided to make the computer wake up 14,400 separate times just to check if we're done yet. We've all been there - watching a progress bar, waiting for a build, or running some unnecessary loop because "that's how the senior dev did it." Four hours later, you're questioning your career choices and wondering if becoming a goat farmer might've been the better path.

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