The Programmer's Kryptonite

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The Programmer's Kryptonite

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The duality of a programmer's spirit in its natural habitat. Coding for hours? "I can do this all day" - we're basically superheroes with headphones. But suggest a 2+ hour meeting about the code we just wrote? Instant surrender. Nothing drains a developer's life force faster than watching the product owner debate whether a button should be blue or slightly-less-blue while your perfectly crafted algorithms gather digital dust. The irony is palpable - we'll happily debug until 3AM but would rather rewrite the entire codebase in COBOL than sit through another "quick sync" that somehow becomes an existential crisis about project timelines.

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