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That moment when you connect to production instead of staging and run your DELETE query without a WHERE clause. First comes panic, then comes the twisted acceptance that you've just created tomorrow's emergency meeting. Eight million rows gone and somehow you're sitting there with a smile because hey – at least the query was efficient! Nothing quite says "senior developer" like the calm that comes after realizing you've achieved catastrophic success.

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The Indiana Jones of software development! Carefully eyeing that golden idol of "existing code" like it's a sacred relic, only to swap it with your "new commit" and trigger the boulder of doom—the linter. That moment when you think you've perfectly calculated the weight of your code replacement, but forgot about those pesky tabs vs spaces arguments. Now you're sprinting through the codebase with angry code reviewers throwing spears at your PR. Should've read the tribe's ancient documentation first!

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