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The emotional journey of a developer in four stages of despair: 1. Coding: "Yeah, I got this!" - Blissfully ignorant, thinking your code will work on the first try. 2. Debugging: "Wait, why is this happening?" - The slow realization that your beautiful code is actually a dumpster fire with a syntax error cherry on top. 3. Version Control: "WHO COMMITTED THIS MONSTROSITY?" - That moment you git blame only to discover it was you, three months ago. 4. DevOps: "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..." - The thousand-yard stare of someone who's had to fix a production server at 2 AM while the CEO watches their Slack status.

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So you'll agonize over whether a variable should be userData , userInfo , or userDataObject for two hours, consulting Clean Code and three senior devs... but your neighbor just casually drops "Silence of the LANs" and "Tell my Wi-Fi love her" without breaking a sweat. Meanwhile, you're still debating camelCase vs snake_case while they're out here creating masterpieces like "Martin Router King" and "The LAN Before Time." They've got more creativity in their router settings than you've had in your entire codebase. The real kicker? Their naming convention is probably more memorable than your perfectly semantic fetchUserDataFromDatabaseAndTransformToDTO function that you spent half a sprint naming.

The eternal cat and mouse game between developers and bugs. You spend hours wielding your debugging tools like Tom with his frying pan, confident you're about to smash that elusive issue... only for the bug to dance just out of reach with that smug Jerry smile. Ten breakpoints, five console.log statements, and three energy drinks later, you're still swinging at air while the bug practically waves at you from production. The worst part? It'll probably disappear the moment your senior dev walks by, then reappear as soon as they leave.