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Remember when web development was just two cartoon characters chasing each other around your codebase? DOM manipulation with jQuery was the wild west of frontend—Tom frantically trying to select elements while Jerry kept escaping through event bubbling loopholes. Modern devs be like "I use React hooks and state management" while secretly missing the days when you could just $('#myElement').fadeIn() and call it a day. No virtual DOM, no component lifecycle—just pure chaos and that satisfying feeling when your animation finally worked. The circle of frontend life: spend years moving away from jQuery only to eventually rebuild it with extra steps.

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Paul Graham is out here preaching about programmers "surfing the AI wave" while the rest of us are DROWNING in reality! 💀 The meme shows what we're ACTUALLY dealing with - pathetically running basic Python repos while crypto bros are generating worthless tokens. Honey, that's not surfing the AI revolution, that's barely doggy-paddling in the kiddie pool! The gap between tech influencer fantasies and our miserable coding reality is wider than my coffee intake on a Monday morning. The AI tsunami isn't coming - we can't even handle the splash from a garden hose!