Developers When They Work From Home

When you finally get that third monitor but realize your dragon wallpaper wasn't designed for this setup. Left screen: menacing. Middle screen: serious. Right screen: derpy as hell. Just like my code—starts strong, maintains dignity in the middle, then completely falls apart by the end of the function. The perfect metaphor for my project timeline estimates too.

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The existential crisis hits hard when junior devs finally grasp that their precious code is just a tiny speck in an endless Russian doll of virtualization. Their Java app isn't running on a "computer" – it's running on a Java Virtual Machine, which is running on a VM, which is running on a hypervisor, which is part of a Virtual Private Cloud... which is probably running in some AWS data center that might not even physically exist for all we know. Seven years into my career and I'm still not convinced my code isn't just running in a simulation inside another developer's fever dream. The turtles really do go all the way down.

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The diagram perfectly captures the infinite loop of developer optimism. You start with a brilliant idea, immediately create a new GitHub repo, then excitedly tell everyone in Slack how you're "revolutionizing" something. Then... straight back to having another idea without ever writing a single line of actual code. It's the software development equivalent of buying gym equipment in January that becomes an expensive clothes hanger by February. The only thing missing is the 3am caffeine-fueled README.md that promises features you haven't even conceptualized yet.