One Line Of Code, Two Games Of Procrastination

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Ever wondered why your laptop fans sound like they're preparing for liftoff? Look no further than your node_modules folder! While your actual code might be a svelte stormtrooper, those dependencies are an absolute unit that would make the Death Star blush. 500 lines of your code somehow requires 500MB of someone else's code. And heaven forbid you run npm install on a weak WiFi connection – you could literally go make a sandwich, watch a Star Wars trilogy, and come back to find it still downloading the "essential" packages needed to center a div.

Content A CRYPTO NERD'S IMAGINATION: HIS LAPTOP'S ENCRYPTED. LET'S BUILD A MILLION-DOLLAR CLUSTER TO CRACK IT. NO GOOD! IT'S 4096 -BIT RSA! BLAST! OUR EVIL PLAN 15 FOILED! WHAT WOULD ACTUALLY HAPPEN: HIS LAPTOP'S ENCRYPTED. DRUG HIM AND HIT HIM WITH THIS 5 WRENCH UNTIL HE TELLS US THE PASSWORD GOT IT.

That special moment when you spend hours manually optimizing your spaghetti code, only for an AI model to "refactor" it into something that makes a COBOL program look like poetry. The audacity of these silicon-based know-it-alls to take your perfectly functional 500-line if-statement and turn it into unreadable "efficient" code that somehow manages to be both more verbose AND less functional. Just what I needed today - another reason to question my career choices.

Content var router express. Router (); Our scraping tools var request require("request"); var cheerio require("cheerio"); Hey bro, it's me. You. Yeah, I'm talking to myself. Again. So, here's the deal. You spent like, a day, trying to figure this shit out. I'm not sure if you remember, but last night while your wife and child slept soundly, you were staring at the ceiling, silently reviewing code in your head, wondering if you could come up with some kind of magical insight just by thinking about things in a relaxed state. It didn't work. You've tried a lot of shit. You've copy and pasted. You've written custom code. You've watched goddamn YouTube videos about stuff you don't even understand. And then ... then you found something that actually works. Do you understand it? No. Not really. Do vou care? The you from like two days ago would have cared. He wanted to understand things, he wanted to have a firm grasp on the underling concepts. But what about Now You? Now You has a clear, crisp response. "Fuck it.", See httns:stackoverflow.coma236083483424316 ProarammerHumor.io

Blind as a bat when reviewing your own code, but suddenly equipped with NASA-grade telescope vision when it's someone else's mess. Nothing quite like the supernatural ability to spot every single anti-pattern, security vulnerability, and poorly named variable in code you didn't write, while your own masterpiece—complete with commented-out debug statements from 2019 and that one function named temp_fix_delete_later_v4 —somehow looks flawless. The real code review superpower isn't finding bugs, it's the selective blindness we develop for our own crimes against computing.