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Day 1: Full of energy, ready to change the world with clean code and innovative solutions. You're basically a caffeinated superhero in a hoodie.
1 month: Still optimistic but the reality of sprint planning and merge conflicts is starting to set in. The smile is strained but present.
6 months: You've now experienced your first production incident at 3 AM, discovered legacy code that makes you question humanity, and realized that "temporary fix" from 5 years ago is now critical infrastructure. The thousand-yard stare has begun.
2 years: You are one with the void. You've seen things. Nested ternary operators. SQL queries with 47 joins. A codebase where every file is named "temp_final_ACTUAL_final_v2.js". Your soul has been optimized away by the compiler of corporate life. You now communicate exclusively in tired sighs and Jira ticket numbers.
The exponential decay of developer enthusiasm follows a well-documented curve that's inversely proportional to the number of times you've heard "it works on my machine" and "can we just add one small feature?"
