Expectation vs. Reality: Coding Skills Edition

First day on the job and already planning to rewrite millions of lines of code? Classic junior developer syndrome. Nothing says "I'm going to revolutionize this place" quite like deciding the entire codebase is garbage before you've even found where the bathroom is. The sheer audacity of looking at legacy code and thinking "Yeah, I can fix this by tomorrow" is peak developer hubris. Spoiler alert: six months later, you'll be defending that same "horrible" code to the next new hire.

Content WHEN YOU REACH YOUR PRINT STATEMENTS ONE AFTER THE OTHER LEADING TO FINDING THE ORIGIN OF THE BUG 7 Oh, yeah. It's all coming together.

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The classic programming classroom standoff! When the prof asks for questions, they're expecting softball queries about office hours or the syllabus. Instead, this brave student drops a data structures nuke about traversing binary trees without recursion. The professor's immediate pivot to "about my personal life..." is the universal signal of "I don't remember how to solve this either but will never admit it." The student's quick backpedal is the silent agreement to maintain the professor's dignity. This is basically the CS equivalent of mutually assured destruction.

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Content I didn't steal your code DISCOVERED it.