I Answered Before Thinking

I Answered Before Thinking
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That moment when your eagerness to please overrides your survival instincts. Junior dev just committed to a 6-month timeline without consulting the team, and now the entire corporate hierarchy is staring at them like they just volunteered to rebuild the monolith from scratch using only Notepad.

The Harry Potter trial scene format is chef's kiss here—because that's exactly what it feels like when you realize your manager, mentor, Chief Architect, CTO, and CEO are all silently calculating how many overtime hours you just promised. Your mentor's disappointed face hits different when you know they've been trying to teach you the ancient art of "let me check with the team first."

Pro tip: The correct answer is always "Let me review the requirements and get back to you with a realistic estimate." But we all learn this lesson the hard way, usually while debugging at 2 AM during month five of that six-month sprint.

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