Finally Works

Nothing says "I understand technology" quite like thinking Computer Science is about manufacturing computers. Dad's response is the perfect encapsulation of why explaining your career to family is harder than explaining recursion to a first-year student. The classic disconnect between what non-tech people think we do ("oh, you can fix my printer!") versus the reality of crying over a missing semicolon at 2AM. The computer science factory is currently hiring - must have 10 years experience in a language that's 3 years old and be willing to work for exposure.

The strongman pulling a truck represents your CPU - powerful but working alone, handling one big task at a time. Meanwhile, the GPU is like those dozens of people working together to pull an airplane - individually weaker but massively parallel. After 15 years in tech, I've watched countless developers throw CPU cores at problems that scream for GPU parallelization. It's like watching someone use a sledgehammer to hang a picture frame.

Content If Full-Stack was a human

Content I'm Google, by the way. f Meta. G Oh, we're using our made-up names. Then I'm Alphabet.

Content for every stack overflow user who endured asking a question so I could get the answer 4 years later from a Google search result

Developer: "This task will take 3 months to complete." Project manager: "Best I can do is 8 story points." The classic time-estimation standoff where developers give realistic timelines and management responds with arbitrary story point allocations that somehow translate to "finish it by Friday." Agile was supposed to save us, not destroy us.