Growing Up Is Realizing Tony Was A Vibe Coder

Remember when you thought coding was all about building cool holographic interfaces like Tony Stark? Then reality hit and you found yourself debugging a production issue at midnight because someone forgot to escape a single quote in a SQL query.

The gap between the fantasy of being a tech genius and the reality of staring at a terminal for 8 hours straight is the true origin story of every senior developer's cynicism.