It Never Does What It Is Supposed To

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Content Run the code! But sire, the red squiggles! Just do it!

That moment when your backend dev says "I'll handle the UI this time" and suddenly your website looks like India's electrical infrastructure. Backend folks have a special talent for turning 20 lines of CSS into whatever this cable nightmare is. "It works on my machine" they say, while the rest of us need therapy after seeing their div placement. The functionality is there... it's just buried under 500 tangled wires and absolutely zero concern for user experience.

Content rProgrammerHumor: Post the same CTRL S meme Me: Didn't I just see this?! rProgrammerHumor: rufuckin' do it again

The AUDACITY of code to exist in such a horrific state! Our poor protagonist goes from rage-reading someone else's spaghetti code to the DRAMATIC realization that it must be completely rewritten. After furiously planning, typing, and sweating through the keyboard, what does this coding martyr create? A CLONE of the original disaster but in a different color! The absolute PINNACLE of developer evolution - hating someone's code so passionately you rebuild the exact same monstrosity and then have the NERVE to feel smug about it. The final frame where they're gleefully planning to delete the original is just *chef's kiss* - as if the red machine wasn't literally BIRTHED from the same deranged logic. Honey, that's not refactoring, that's just putting lipstick on a digital pig!