The Programmer's Emotional Pendulum

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The Programmer's Emotional Pendulum
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The programmer's metronome of self-perception swings wildly between "I just refactored this entire codebase in one night, I am basically a deity" and "I've spent 3 hours debugging and it was a missing semicolon, I should be banned from touching keyboards." There is no middle ground in this profession - just the daily emotional rollercoaster between feeling like you've hacked the matrix and wondering if you should've become a sheep farmer instead.

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