Base Ten: The Sacred Numbering System

Content CPU: predicts wrong execution branch This little maneuver is gonna cost us 51 nanoseconds

Content Google programmers are programmers are not engineers programmers are programmers are easily scared programmers are arrogant programmers are lazy programmers are losers programmers are weird programmers are idiots programmers are annoying programmers are afraid to touch the code

Opening that dusty repo from 3 years ago and finding your brain sitting next to a gas can. Perfect metaphor for the cognitive dissonance of reading your old code and thinking "Who wrote this garbage? Oh wait, it was me." The only options are to burn it all down or somehow reattach your brain and figure out what past-you was thinking when you decided that 47 nested if-statements was an elegant solution.

Content You are the last developer left in the company that knows how to work on the legacy codebase Your colleagues: carefully, he's a hero

That exhausted look when your coworker won't shut up about AI. The quotation marks around "programmers" say it all - real devs are busy fixing merge conflicts while the ChatGPT enthusiasts are planning how AI will write their next project. Meanwhile, the rest of us just want to finish our coffee before it gets cold.

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