Googled And Tried: A Developer's Origin Story

The thousand-yard stare says it all. Behind every "self-taught developer" is just an endless cycle of desperate Google searches, Stack Overflow copy-pasting, and that moment when your code finally works but you're not entirely sure why. The traumatic flashbacks of 3 AM debugging sessions where you've gone from "I'll just fix this one bug" to questioning your entire career choice. That wide-eyed expression isn't excitement—it's the permanent mark left by staring into the void of documentation that somehow explains everything except the exact problem you're having.