If The Variable Is Constant, Why Is It A Variable?

The classic boardroom meeting where everyone gets to play the blame game for tech layoffs. First guy immediately points at AI because his JavaScript skills are now worth about as much as a Blockbuster gift card. Middle person blames foreigners because obviously someone in Bangalore stole their job and not their inability to learn anything past jQuery. Only the third person mentions actual economic factors while getting yeeted out the window for bringing reality into a tech conversation. Turns out the industry doesn't want solutions—just convenient scapegoats that don't require updating your resume or learning Rust.

The guy playing ping pong with a door handle instead of a paddle is basically all of us diving into a new programming language without bothering to read the docs first. Sure, you could spend three hours reading proper syntax and best practices, or you could just start hacking away and Google error messages as they appear. Who has time for documentation when there's a deadline tomorrow and Stack Overflow exists? Ten years in the industry and I still find myself doing this. The cycle never ends - new framework drops, copy-paste some examples, break everything, fix it somehow, and suddenly you're an "expert" giving talks about it.

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The eternal struggle of modern development: StackOverflow tells you that you're absolutely wrong (with bonus downvotes and snarky comments), while ChatGPT cheerfully validates your terrible code that will probably explode in production. It's like choosing between the brutally honest friend who makes you cry and the yes-man who encourages you to wear that hideous outfit to an interview. The truth is somewhere in between, but who has time for nuance when you're trying to fix that bug before the deadline?

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That moment when your senior dev asks you to implement a shrinking algorithm and you decide to just decrement a counter in a loop. The crying cat perfectly captures the pain of code review day when they see your O(n) solution that could've been a simple one-liner. "It technically works" is your only defense as you prepare to rewrite it for the fifth time.