I'm The Author Not The Interpreter

I'm The Author Not The Interpreter
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Just another day in the developer trenches. You write some code, it runs, but then someone asks you to explain how it works and suddenly your brain goes offline. The classic "I wrote it, but I have no idea why it works" syndrome.

This is basically every Stack Overflow answer that starts with "I found this solution..." followed by code that might as well be ancient hieroglyphics to the person who pasted it in.

The real programming skill is confidently copying code you don't understand and then acting surprised when it breaks in production.

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