Expectation Vs Reality: The Developer's Job Trap

Oh man, that awkward handshake moment when your boss is congratulating you for "optimizing" code that YOU originally broke! 😅 When you're the arsonist and the firefighter, but only get credit for the firefighting part. Classic dev move - break something so badly that when you fix it to be slightly better than your broken version, everyone thinks you're a genius! The internal screaming while accepting praise for solving a problem you created is peak programmer energy. Honestly, it's basically a career advancement strategy at this point!

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The aristocratic superiority complex of C++ developers in their natural habitat. Shaving 100 nanoseconds off a program's runtime and suddenly they're strutting around like royalty from the 18th century. Meanwhile, the rest of us are just trying to make code that actually works without segfaulting. But hey, if you've ever hand-optimized a hot loop by unrolling it just right, you've probably made that exact same face.

The love-hate relationship with Python in a nutshell. First you're screaming at it to get out of your face, then you violently attack it, but inevitably end up consuming it bit by bit until you're in a blissful state of Python-induced euphoria. We've all been there—cursing Python's indentation rules or package management at 2 PM, only to find ourselves at 6 PM dreamily writing one-liners that would take 50 lines in Java. The Stockholm syndrome of programming languages.

The eternal struggle of texture mapping gone wrong! The waiter—clearly a junior developer—applied UV mapping to these fries, turning what should be a delicious meal into a technical nightmare. In game development, UV mapping is how 2D textures get wrapped around 3D objects, but when done poorly, you get... whatever this abomination is. The fries look like they've been rendered with the default texture coordinates that someone forgot to unwrap properly. Classic case of "it works on my machine" energy from the kitchen staff.

Content David Winterbottom codeinthehole On your first day at the new job, squash every commit from the repo into a single commit with message "Legacy code" and force-push to master.