Like Get The F Out Find Your Own Niche

Nothing reveals your territorial programmer instincts quite like someone you actually know wanting to learn your craft. Random internet stranger? Sure, here's a 47-part tutorial series with code samples. Your cousin at Thanksgiving? Suddenly programming becomes "really hard" and "maybe not for everyone." It's like we're all secretly worried they'll discover it's just googling stuff and copying Stack Overflow answers, and then our mystique is gone. The gatekeeping is real, folks—we've built our little kingdoms of semicolons and curly braces, and nobody's getting past the moat without earning it the hard way like we did (by also googling stuff, but that was different).