Out Nerded The Source Code

When your 12-year-old labels you as "Source Code" in their phone, you think you've peaked as a programmer parent. Then you check what they named your spouse and find "Data Compiler" staring back at you.

The kid understands the fundamental relationship: source code is what you write, but the compiler is what actually makes everything work and catches all your mistakes. Dad writes the buggy logic, Mom debugs it and turns it into something functional.

Getting intellectually destroyed by a middle schooler who just discovered computer science metaphors hits different. The student has become the master.