The Context Switching Shower Of Despair

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The Context Switching Shower Of Despair

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Nothing quite captures the existential crisis of a developer like being mid-flow on your codebase when suddenly... "Hey, can you drop everything for this urgent client request?" Your mental stack trace collapses like a house of cards. There you are—covered in metaphorical soap, huddled in the shower of despair—as your beautiful architecture and carefully maintained state variables wash down the drain. The context switching tax is brutal; studies show it takes 23 minutes to fully regain focus after an interruption. Meanwhile, your original project sits abandoned like that feature branch you swore you'd come back to finish three sprints ago.

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