Always Think That Your User Is Stupid

Ah, the eternal tech cycle. A new library emerges and suddenly everyone's ready to toss their 300MB node_modules folder into the trash. HTMX promises the revolutionary concept of *checks notes* using HTML attributes to do AJAX. Meanwhile, React developers who've spent years mastering component lifecycles are quietly updating their résumés while muttering "it's just a phase." The full stack devs are playing both sides so they always come out on top. Classic framework warfare where the only winners are the people writing Medium articles about "Why I Switched From X to Y and Increased Performance by 9000%."

Content when you write 10 lines of code without searching on Google taint much, but it's honest work

Look at that high-end Bugatti with no wheels—just like those fancy Unreal Engine 5 games that look incredible in trailers but run at 12 FPS on actual hardware. Sure, the graphics are mind-blowing, but what good is a sports car (or game engine) when it can't actually move? Six months after launch: "We're optimizing the experience with our latest 50GB patch." Meanwhile your GPU is sweating harder than a junior dev during a code review.

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Content Interviewer: "Write a function to get the nth Fibonacci number" My solution: const fib n Math. floor(1Math.sqrt (5) (Math. pow((1 Math. sqrt (5)) 2, -Math.pow ( (1 - Math. sqrt (5)) 2, n) )) The interviewer:

Corporate tech in a nutshell. Some executive burns through millions on AI "innovations" that are basically expensive tech demos destined for the graveyard. Meanwhile, the kid who'll inherit this mess someday is already recognizing the corporate cycle of wasted resources. The real kicker? Those hundreds of proof-of-concepts probably could've been one solid product if someone had just said "no" to the next shiny AI buzzword. But that wouldn't look good on the quarterly innovation report, would it?