Glad To Be Out Of The Equation At Least

Glad To Be Out Of The Equation At Least
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Junior dev in 2016: "Hey senior, can you build this feature?" Senior dev: "Sure, let me architect a beautiful solution."

Junior dev in 2026 after years of tech debt accumulation, framework migrations, and questionable architectural decisions: "I built it myself." Senior dev pulls gun: "Wait... the idea was the problem?"

Plot twist: The thing that was built is probably held together with duct tape, prayer, and seventeen deprecated npm packages. But hey, at least it ships. The senior dev has seen enough production fires to know that sometimes the real horror isn't that something can't be built—it's that it will be built, and they'll be the ones maintaining it at 2 AM when it inevitably breaks.

The astronaut watching from the sidelines represents every tech lead who's learned to stay out of these conversations entirely.

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