Sad Reality

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Sad Reality

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Ah, the classic programmer's dilemma! When you refuse to share your code, it's never about greed—it's because your implementation is held together with duct tape, Stack Overflow snippets, and questionable variable names like temp_fix_delete_later_v3_FINAL. The shame is real when your elegant solution in theory turned into a horrifying Frankenstein's monster in execution. Every programmer knows that feeling when someone asks "Can I see your code?" and your fight-or-flight response kicks in faster than an infinite loop crashes your IDE.

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