Innocent New Developer

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Innocent New Developer

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Just like the sign says, the sidewalk ends... and so does your understanding of the codebase after the senior dev who wrote it quits without documentation. One minute you're walking confidently through clean code, the next you're staring at a concrete slab with nowhere to go except into the weeds of legacy code. That feeling when the tutorial ends and you have to figure out the rest yourself. Welcome to real-world development, kid!

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