The Great Job Title Inflation Crisis

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Content MANAGER: SO THERE WAS 3 BUGS BEFORE YOU STARTED AND 4 AFTER YOU FIXED ONE OF THEM It's an oversimplification of events, but, yes. imaflip.com

Forget relationship advice. The real dopamine hit is closing those 100+ Chrome tabs that have been open for days while you were frantically Googling error messages and Stack Overflow solutions. That moment when you finally squash that impossible bug and get to perform the digital equivalent of burning all your research notes? Pure ecstasy. Nothing beats that "I can finally rest now" feeling after turning cryptic error messages into working code. Relationships come and go, but the satisfaction of closing tabs after a coding victory is forever.

The classic developer dismissal cycle in its natural habitat. First dev smugly declares "sounds like a skill issue tbh" - the universal code for "your problem is you, not the code." Two weeks later, karma strikes when they hit the exact same wall and suddenly it's "wait no it doesn't work for me either." Nothing humbles a programmer faster than having to eat their own snarky comments when facing the same bug they previously mocked. The circle of dev life is complete.

Ah, the classic regex email validation bell curve. The sweet spot of sanity sits right in the middle where people use a simple EMAIL.CONTAINS('@') check and call it a day. On the low IQ end, you've got folks using the same basic check, blissfully unaware of the horrors that await. On the high IQ end, you've got the regex wizards who've stared into the abyss of RFC 5322 compliance and returned with that monstrosity at the top of the image. After 15 years in the industry, I've come to accept that email validation is like quicksand—the harder you fight for perfection, the deeper you sink. Just check for an @ symbol and move on with your life. Your sanity will thank you.

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