Everything Is Just An App Now

The idealism vs reality gap strikes again. Senior dev up there talking about "building apps, teamwork, and discovering new things" while the rest of us are just thinking "will this job pay my AWS bill?" Ten years in and I've learned there are two types of developers: those who genuinely believe in the craft and those who realized a CS degree was their ticket to affording groceries without checking prices. The duality of our industry in one perfect frame.

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Ah, the family tree of dependency hell! Just like how you can't exist without Mom and Dad, and they somehow need you to function (especially when they need tech support), your code shouldn't form these ridiculous loops either. This is basically every developer justifying their spaghetti architecture with "but it works in real life!" Sure, and my code works on my machine too. Doesn't mean it's not a disaster waiting to happen when someone else tries to untangle your family issues—I mean, dependencies.

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The corporate data science dream team standing around watching one guy with Excel do all the actual work. Classic case of "we hired seven specialists with fancy titles to stare at a hole while the person who's been using VLOOKUP since 2003 actually solves the problem." This is why your company's $2M data infrastructure still ultimately feeds into someone's spreadsheet that crashes every third Thursday. The Excel guru probably makes half what the AI consultants do, but knows where all the bodies are buried in your database.

The eternal Python love affair strikes again! That moment when a programmer's head turns faster than a sorting algorithm at the mere mention of Python, while completely ignoring other perfectly good languages. The syntax is so clean you could eat off it, the libraries so plentiful you'd need AWS storage to count them all. And let's be honest - once you've tasted those sweet, sweet indentation-based code blocks, semicolons just feel like unnecessary punctuation trauma. First love in programming is like first love in life - irrationally powerful and immune to logical arguments about performance benchmarks.