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When your Python code finally breaks down, C++ comes to the rescue! The meme brilliantly captures how Python (the fancy sports car) might look sleek and get you moving quickly, but eventually needs to be carried by C++ (the tow truck) for performance-critical operations. Under the hood, Python itself is implemented in C, and many high-performance Python libraries like NumPy and TensorFlow have C/C++ cores doing the heavy lifting while Python just waves from the driver's seat. When your code needs to go really fast, you end up writing those critical sections in C++ anyway. It's the classic speed vs. development time tradeoff that haunts every performance optimization meeting!

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Remember when we actually knew how to code? Now we're just crawling helplessly on the floor when our IDE's autocomplete doesn't finish our sentences. "Oh no, I have to remember how to close my own brackets now!" The modern developer's equivalent of losing their glasses – suddenly blind to syntax errors and unable to remember if it's forEach or map without the friendly red squiggles to guide them. We've evolved from programmers to professional autocomplete managers.

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