Change my mind.

The build tool hierarchy according to C++ developers! BSD Make gets a mild "meh" reaction. GNU Make earns a fancy tuxedo upgrade and approving smile. But NMAKE? That's Microsoft's Windows build tool that makes Pooh show his teeth in pure rage. It's the compiler equivalent of stepping on a LEGO while debugging a memory leak at 3AM. The perfect visual representation of why developers would rather rewrite their entire codebase than deal with Visual Studio's native build system.

The evolution of a programmer's copy-paste techniques is a beautiful thing to witness. First, there's the primitive mouse-dragging method—functional but painfully pedestrian. Then comes the enlightened keyboard shortcut phase with Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V—a clear upgrade in efficiency. But the final form? Hitting Ctrl+C multiple times in neurotic succession because you're never quite sure if it actually copied, followed by a single, confident Ctrl+V. It's not a bug, it's a feature of developer anxiety. The clipboard might have betrayed us once, but never again.

The classic PM-to-developer exchange: "Hey, we need this feature done asap, can you work over the weekend?" followed by the developer's response—a person in Windows 95 merch giving a thumbs up that screams "absolutely not" in every possible way. Nothing says "your poor planning isn't my emergency" quite like a passive-aggressive thumbs up from someone who's already mentally logged off until Monday. The ancient art of appearing supportive while silently updating your resume.

Ah yes, the classic "market correction" we've all been waiting for. Nothing says "your decade of experience and six-figure student loans were worth it" quite like being offered McDonald's wages for senior developer positions. That smug cartoon dog sipping his drink represents every offshore recruiter who thinks your expertise in building scalable distributed systems is worth approximately one Starbucks latte per hour. The best part? It's a promoted post—someone actually paid money to advertise this absurdity. Welcome to 2023, where your GitHub contributions are worth less than the electricity it took to push them.

Nothing ages you faster than remembering when scrollbars were chunky, reliable parts of the browser window that just sat there doing their job. Now we've got these fancy disappearing overlays that show up for 0.5 seconds before fading away like your hopes of maintaining backward compatibility. The real tragedy? Watching the frog age from "young dev with bright eyes" to "senior engineer who's seen too many UI frameworks come and go" in the time it takes for browsers to decide scrollbars should be ephemeral experiences rather than functional UI elements.

Oh. My. GOD! The absolute DRAMA of people with zero AI knowledge screeching about robot overlords while actual neural networks are over here labeling cats as dogs! 💀 The existential threat of AI is apparently a computer that can't tell the difference between basic pets! World domination? Honey, it can't even master a preschool-level animal identification task! Skynet isn't happening when your fancy algorithm thinks fluffy white cats are canines. But sure, keep panicking about the robot apocalypse while developers are just trying to make their models recognize basic objects correctly!