The Automation Paradox

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The GitHub contribution graph—where darker green means you're a coding machine and lighter green means you occasionally remember your password. The interviewer is confused because this guy's squares are dark green (meaning tons of commits) but somehow he has "less contributions." Plot twist: he's just really good at squashing 47 panicked debug commits into one elegant pull request. His smug "I got it right the first time" response is the programming equivalent of claiming you've never googled "how to center a div" or "what does NaN mean again?"

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The perfect startup recipe: one person who can't write a for-loop without StackOverflow and another who thinks SEO means "Some Extra Options." Yet somehow, when these two shake hands, venture capitalists throw money at them faster than developers abandon jQuery. After 15 years in tech, I've watched this exact scenario play out dozens of times. The codebase is held together with npm packages and prayers, the marketing strategy is "go viral," and yet they're valued at $50M pre-revenue. Meanwhile, I'm debugging production issues at 10pm for a company that actually makes money.

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