The Four Stages Of Impossible Coding Success

The four horsemen of the programmer's apocalypse, except they're actually... good? It starts with the mild panic of tackling a complex feature from scratch—standard Tuesday stuff. But then the impossible happens: you write the code in a day (suspicious), it works on the first try (definitely witchcraft), and somehow it even handles edge cases you didn't know existed (at this point, you've clearly made a deal with some eldrich coding deity).

The escalating facial expressions perfectly capture that journey from "I'm doomed" to "I am become Death, destroyer of bugs." The final glowing red eyes represent the brief moment of godlike power before reality crashes back in with a null pointer exception.