Y2k Memes

Ah yes, the classic "let's handle years with a switch statement" approach. Some poor developer back in 1999 was like: switch(year) {   case 2020: // pandemic mode   case 2021: // still pandemic   case 2022: // recovery mode   case 2023: // normal-ish   case 2024: // election chaos   // TODO: add more years later   default: trainControl.panic(); } And then they quit, got promoted, or died before anyone remembered to add 2025. Twenty-five years after Y2K and we're still writing software like time is a finite concept. This is why we can't have nice things... or functioning trains, apparently.

Ah yes, the Y10K problem - the sequel nobody asked for! Future devs will be sobbing in their space pods because some genius in 2023 thought "four digits ought to be enough for anybody." Imagine having to refactor billions of lines of legacy code across the galaxy because nobody considered humans might still be writing terrible code 8,000 years from now. The exhausted expression says it all - "I could've been a space poet, but instead I'm patching date formats on Martian ATMs." History repeats itself, just with more digits.