I Am A Pain In The Ass

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Top panel: The face of pure dread when looking at actual development tasks. Bottom panel: Suddenly perking up with interest when someone asks for a TPS report or some other administrative nonsense. It's the universal law of developer productivity - code feels like a chore until someone interrupts with something worse. Then miraculously, that refactoring task you've been avoiding for weeks looks like a sanctuary.

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Content Men used to go to war, now they make 400k a year to write some code and claim return to office is a crime

Junior dev: "Our servers can't handle the load, we need better infrastructure!" Senior dev: "Hold my coffee. We're injecting this code straight into the kernel." Because why optimize your application code or use proper caching when you can just bypass every layer of abstraction and go full kernel mode? It's like using a flamethrower to light a candle—completely unnecessary, slightly dangerous, but undeniably effective. The junior wants to throw money at the problem with new servers, while the senior is out here performing dark rituals with eBPF and kernel modules. "In the name of the holy Assembler" indeed—nothing says "I've seen things" quite like someone willing to write C code that runs in kernel space just to squeeze out those extra microseconds. Fun fact: eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) actually lets you run sandboxed programs in the Linux kernel without changing kernel source code. It's basically giving your code VIP backstage access to the operating system. Totally normal developer behavior.