Oh. My. GOD! The absolute CIRCUS of professional programming in four tragic acts! ๐ช
First we start with this DELUSION that our code is "good and understandable" - honey, that's what we tell ourselves before the makeup goes on! ๐
Then reality SLAPS us in the face - clean code? In this economy?! That's just for classrooms, sweetie! In the real business world, it's apparently a LIABILITY to write maintainable code because WHO HAS THE TIME?!
By the third stage, we're in FULL CLOWN MODE realizing all our beautiful abstractions are WORTHLESS the second some product manager changes their mind! Those elegant patterns? GARBAGE! That architecture diagram? TRASH!
And the finale? The EXPLOSIVE revelation that none of us actually studied programming formally - we're just chaos goblins with Stack Overflow accounts and a concerning caffeine addiction! *throws confetti made of deprecated documentation*