Hollywood vs Reality

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Content We redid the app! It runs 10x slower. All major features are broken, and we use 5x the RAM. Everything people liked is now a dark pattern. Our users are 69 mobile. A single dropped packet now freezes everything. But we added DARK MODE !!!

The instant transformation from dead-inside to pure joy when a meeting gets canceled is the most authentic developer emotion ever captured. That precious hour you just got back? That's not "catch up on emails" time—that's "finally fix that cursed bug without someone asking for a status update every 15 minutes" time. The headphones stay on either way because they're not just for music—they're the universal symbol for "I'm in the zone, interrupt me and I'll rewrite your Git history."

When your code doesn't work but your colleague's identical code does... turns out they used 4 spaces for indentation while you're a tab heretic. The compiler/interpreter bows to the spaces like that stubborn child listens to grandma. Nothing triggers holy wars in programming quite like the tabs vs. spaces debate. And somewhere, a senior dev is silently judging both of you while writing single-line code with no indentation whatsoever.

Content Mom: Don't touch your computer and mobile until your exams are over. Me studying software engineering: -sal.

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