Makes Sense: The Developer Lifecycle

The real punchline here isn't about actual drugs—it's about the soul-crushing journey from bright-eyed CS graduate to battle-worn developer. That 4.0 GPA means nothing when you're three sprints behind, surviving on caffeine, and debugging legacy code written by someone who clearly hated humanity. The transformation isn't from success to failure—it's from naïve optimism to the thousand-yard stare of someone who's seen one too many production outages at 2AM. Graduation vs five years of "we need this hotfix yesterday."