The Golden Era Of Software Engineering

The eternal developer's dilemma captured in three painful stages of existence:

First, we see Assembly code - a nightmare of register manipulation and syscalls just to print "Hello, World!" - with the crushing realization you missed the era when real programmers had to understand how computers actually work.

Then there's quantum computing with its shiny gold hardware that looks like it belongs in a sci-fi movie. Too bad you're stuck in the boring classical computing era while the cool kids will someday manipulate qubits in superposition.

But fear not! You were born at the perfect time to experience the true pinnacle of software engineering: begging an AI to center a div because CSS is basically dark magic that nobody actually understands.

The circle of programming life is complete. We've gone from writing machine code to having machines write our code.