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The eternal developer paradox captured in one image. Four years of coding and suddenly you're expected to be a guru? The confident cat on the left is what non-technical people imagine—a seasoned expert with "lots of knowledge." The traumatized cat on the right is the reality—staring into the void, questioning if you know anything at all. The more you learn, the more you realize how little you actually know. Four years in and you're still Googling how to center a div and wondering if anyone else feels like they're just making it up as they go. Spoiler alert: we all are.

Content The seniors in my team in their 30s: bet that in the future we will be programming flying cars Me in my 30s: "How to center a div vertically HTML"

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Ah, the age-old tabs vs. spaces holy war has claimed another victim! Nothing turns a mild-mannered developer into a raging lunatic faster than someone running an autoformatter that converts their carefully crafted tab indentation into spaces (or vice versa). It's like watching someone rearrange your kitchen while insisting they're "helping." Sure, the code might work exactly the same afterward, but now it feels wrong on a spiritual level. And let's be honest - you'd rather rewrite the entire project from scratch than adapt to someone else's indentation style. The true mark of a senior developer isn't their algorithm knowledge or architecture skills—it's the intensity with which they'll defend their whitespace preferences to the death.

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