Offset Wrong Direction

Career advice whiplash in full effect! First we had factory workers losing jobs, so everyone's like "just learn to code, bro!" Then programmers get cocky thinking they're immune to automation. Fast forward to 2025, and suddenly the coding gurus are screaming as AI steals their precious keyboard-smashing jobs. Meanwhile, the circle of life completes as we're back to recommending physical trades. Turns out the only constant in tech is that whatever career path you choose today will probably be obsolete by the time you master it. The real skill is learning how to pivot before you become a sad wojak.

Content Choking on tea in front of 300 people during the first Teams meeting Accidentally typing git commands in the Teams chat Explaining code I barely understand to the client Making a pull request that failed all the unit tests then immediately leaving work

The infamous "quick fix" that's been running in production for 7 years. The duct tape solution that outlasted three CTOs. The "I'll refactor this next sprint" code that's now supporting your company's entire revenue stream. It's the programming equivalent of putting a book under that wobbly table leg and then forgetting about it until it becomes structural support. The irony is exquisite - our industry runs on "temporary" hacks that somehow survive nuclear apocalypses while meticulously architected systems get scrapped after six months.

Content when you're a software developer and you learn an entire continent is going to change their timezones next year

That thousand-yard stare when your brain decides to solve your recursive function issue during a social event. Your body might be discussing weekend plans, but your mind just figured out it was a missing semicolon all along. The real party is happening in your prefrontal cortex where that elusive edge case just got handled. Meanwhile everyone else is wondering why you're nodding at nothing and mumbling "of course, the buffer overflow."

Content When you post your first answer to Stack Overflow and now people are copy pasting your code I see no God up here Other than ME