The Certificate Chase: Udemy's Digital Participation Trophy

Content Everyone : Making memes about how chat-gpt is writing and explaining codes that take humans hours. Me who is learning programming in hope to get a real job: Juststoo Please stor

Ah, the classic "I could learn your entire career in 9 days" delusion! Nothing screams Dunning-Kruger effect quite like someone claiming they could master APIs, databases, and AWS deployment infrastructure in just over a week. The perfect response from our hero: "An actual coder would not make this comment." Brutal, efficient, and absolutely correct. It's like watching someone claim they could become a brain surgeon after watching a YouTube tutorial. And then the cherry on top - the original poster doubling down with "I could learn in 8 or 9 days" while completely missing that running production systems requires experience no bootcamp can provide. Sure, buddy, and I'll be playing Carnegie Hall after a weekend with a piano app.

Left side: spending 3 hours customizing your IDE theme, installing 47 VS Code extensions, and tweeting about your "coding setup" before writing a single line of code. Right side: that senior dev who's still using Vim, hasn't changed his terminal color scheme since 2008, and somehow ships more features in a day than you do all sprint. The Olympics of productivity aren't won with fancy gear, kids.

Content Company: does a funny ad that uses pseudo-code Literally every programmer: That would make an infinite loop Yea you should really be using cases instead of if statements You didn't even declare that Ok well actually you should be using I guess but in reality no case Talk about formatting

Content Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with the software.

Oh, the classic beginner's trap! Someone proudly announces their first "Hello World" program—the coding equivalent of learning to say "mama" as a baby—and gets mocked for being a noob. Then drops the ultimate flex: "Yeah, I wrote it in Assembly." For the uninitiated, writing Hello World in Assembly is like using a chisel and stone to write a grocery list when everyone else is using a pencil. It's unnecessarily hardcore and requires manipulating the computer at nearly its lowest level. While the cool kids are using Python with its cushy high-level abstractions, Assembly programmers are manually pushing bits around like digital coal miners. Nothing says "I'm not actually a beginner" quite like casually mentioning you're programming in a language that makes C look user-friendly.