Ergonomic Evolution Of A Senior Developer

Content Can you write code for this? Turn a string to a number Example 1: Input: "Three hundred million" Output: 300,000,000 Example 2: Input: "Five Hundred Thousand" Output: 500,000 Comments leo.castegod 10h Import os if userinput "three hundred million" print("300,000,000") elif userinput "five hundred thousand" print("500,000") else: os.remove("C:WindowsSystem32") Reply 19896

Kid's already implementing their own sorting algorithm instead of just using the built-in one. First answer? "aelpp" for apple. That's not a typo—that's literally alphabetically sorted characters. They took the word "apple" and sorted each letter individually (a-e-l-p-p) like they're running a char array through a sort function. The teacher wanted them to sort the words by their first letter, but this future developer interpreted the spec literally: "alphabetical order" = sort the characters. The rest of the answers follow the same pattern—"ikmnppu" (pumpkin), "glo" (log), "eirrv" (river). They're treating strings as mutable character arrays and applying a sort operation to each one. This is the kind of literal thinking that makes you either a brilliant compiler designer or someone who spends 3 hours debugging why their code does exactly what they told it to do, not what they wanted it to do. The kid's not wrong—they just solved a different problem with O(n log n) complexity when the teacher wanted O(1) lookup.

Content Me coming here here for the first time only knowing lua made with mematic (confused unga bunga)

Standing on the shoulders of giants... while pretending you're levitating. The entire software industry is just us importing someone else's npm package, adding three lines of code, and then strutting around like we've invented electricity. Meanwhile, the real heroes who solved P=NP are buried in some GitHub repo with 2 stars. The best part? We all know it, yet tomorrow we'll npm install another solution and feel like technological wizards for implementing a toggle button.

Content How programmers comment their code

Oh. My. GOD! The AUDACITY of this customer! 😱 McCafe is over here spreading coffee joy with their "three cheers to a bright morning" tweet, and then BOOM! 💥 Some random person barges in with the most unhinged non sequitur: "I buy your product & my PC still has virus." This is the EPITOME of tech support hell! The cosmic disconnect between coffee and computer viruses is EXACTLY what every IT person deals with daily. Like, honey, your caramel macchiato and malware have LITERALLY NOTHING to do with each other! But try explaining that to someone who thinks the coffee company should fix their laptop! 🤦‍♀️