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COBOL assignments are already punishment enough without the professor's commentary. First they tell you to add comments, so you write "*> move A to B" which is literally just repeating what the code says in slightly different words. Then they hit you with the "explain WHY not WHAT" lecture, so you craft these beautiful explanatory comments about copying values around. The code went from self-documenting to over-documented faster than a mainframe processes a batch job. Nothing says "I understand good practices" quite like explaining why you're moving variables in a language where everything is already painfully verbose.

The perfect metaphor for web architecture doesn't exi-- Backend: Three people cooking in primitive conditions with giant pots over open flames. The unsung heroes doing the actual heavy lifting while covered in sweat and smoke. Frontend: A polished restaurant interior with mood lighting and fancy tables. Looks great but completely useless without the backend's cooking. APIs: The waitstaff in formal attire carrying food from kitchen to table. They don't make anything themselves but get all the tips for simply transferring data between systems. And somehow management still wonders why backend developers are always grumpy.

Content Brothers and sisters are natural enemies. Like product owners and programmers. Or projecmahagers and programmers. Or analysts an a procrammers. Or pregrammers and other programmers Damn programmers. They tired programming!

Content 10 minutes doing a repetitive task 30 minutes automating that task instead

Sure, normal people count to 10 on their fingers. But us nerds? We're out here counting in binary where each finger is a bit. Two hands = 10 bits = 2^10 = 1024 values. It's the same reason we think 512MB is a nice round number while marketing folks insist on calling it "half a gig." We didn't spend years optimizing algorithms just to use decimal like some kind of animal. The irony? Most of us still use our fingers to count how many bugs we've introduced while fixing the original one.

Content Me after sitting on mute for 59 minutes in a Zoom call to say "nope, nothing from me"