Damned If You Do, Damned If You Code

bugs Programming languages Technical debt Refactoring Developer life Software development Legacy code German

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Damned If You Do, Damned If You Code

software-development-memes, debugging-memes, refactoring-memes, technical-debt-memes, coding-humor-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io

Germans really nailed it with "Verschlimmbessern" - a word that perfectly captures that special feeling when you fix one bug and create three more. After 15 years in the trenches, I've turned simple 10-line functions into architectural nightmares while "improving" them. The real skill in software development isn't writing code—it's explaining to management why your refactoring broke production while somehow making it sound like progress. The German language just skips the BS and calls it what it is.

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