Am I Doing It Wrong

Am I Doing It Wrong
hashmaps-memes, data-structures-memes, algorithms-memes, optimization-memes, lazy-programming-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io

When your professor spent 45 minutes explaining Big O notation and tree traversal algorithms, but you're over here just jamming everything into a HashMap because key-value go brrr. Sure, there are 57 other data structures specifically designed for your exact problem, but why waste time being elegant when you can waste memory being lazy?